silver love,

dog eyes of gleaming stars,

the sullied daylight is opaque –

shine on old supermarket receipts

*****

mildred pierce’s bread basket of sand,

red and white cloth lined

*****

emails sent,

adoption support groups,

celestial visions

for the third eye

*****

fresh blueberries

writ in purple ink,

a gathered garden

of sepia sunflower heads

*****

exhausted,

preoccupied,

a silent lonely road

of rose pink lips and grey green eyes:

skies are pollution-level gunmetal,

poisonous bands powder blue peach

*****

mildred pierce wears black and grey,

waiting is challenging

*****

the olive windows

are like moss,

like decay:

desiccated poppy heads learn,

lessons of retrieved seed,

baked and fond