Washes of Hues (Workshop Edition)

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2025

Washes of hues confuse

the binge of sound.

Noises in the head scrape

against the colors

in the brain,

the din maddening,

deafening the need

to think. 


Thoughts rise undulating in her mind,

dancing tauntingly 'til

she can't take it anymore. 


They did that. 

They made her crazy.

They made her crazy

so that one night she just flew,

it wasn’t a long flight,

just a gesture to the wind

and she was gone. 


Metronome of maestros

pound in her brain,

not-right-not-right

(take-flight-take-flight)

the hues can’t erase

the swirling water-tones

of pigment 

she see inside her eyes,

sepia yellows, grayed blues,

shadows begging for a palette,

knife.


Sleep eludes, scrapes

the brain

washes tints to

form

the gone-ness of time

on the tempered paper

of her mind. 





"Pantry lines" 

lines to save that were taken out to either save or control-delete when my core says its ok


Quiet little harbingers,

Quiet little aches of loss,


Constant affection, disaffection 

In truth,

Blurred the hues

that scraped the mind

That binged the brain

in metronomes of sound 

all around.

All resound

To drive her crazy. 


The pattern on his jacket,

Buried tear stained face,

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I attended a workshop and worked on "Washes of Hues," which I thought was quite profound.  lol I later decided it leaned too much toward being a victim poem, though some felt it, as I intended, was more about realizing a narcissistic relationship.

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