Rainbow

i.

I have a bouquet of light
cliques
of shattered sunrays
that shun those
whose rose is not as rubicund
or whose cerulean is only slightly sea-green-stained.

Slice up the white
and imprison it in sardine cans
syringes
and push the plungers home.

But no matter how much you may try
the result is death;
for you've frayed the perfect threads
beyond repair
And only dried minerals and plasma
some darker version of the cosmic latte concentrated.

ii.

My heart is a prism.
All that's around me
is cold
and bleak
some hibernating humming
frozen beneath the winter's coat.

And inside,
I must be a time machine,
because I cannot abide this monochrome much longer.
And I've sprung forward to spring.

I'm seizing the icicles
that drip from the pallid clouds
and stripping them
and cutting them
and setting them

and in my heart they are transcribed
and flowers bloom
in the rumination of the sunlight.

I'm bursting;
a host to the aquatic fermentation
and I sip this bouquet
an imitation of the future,
slipping into some trip
where colors regurgitated on paper
turn into white.

iii.
i am the equinox.