Fauve


You are a sanguine man to me,
with blue blood I love to paint.
This sky's split orange for you. Angels.

That is all. Your hair is matte
with topaz where the thorns cut through.
I affix the tears of centuries--

black smears. Finished. So beautifully
abstracted. You are
hardly the son of anything real.

© 1982 John Goss