Rachel Sutherland Watercolors And My Second Draft of Ekrastic Poem: Currant Blossoms Lonely
Delicate now currant flower
help us say currant
without loneliness
what curse of words
The Purple inside Black
How then the sleeve
of ------
word -- who gave you
the authority?
Look. Look. At me.
Currant. Spell it. You
Say it. Lonely
the currant blossom.
The way to say loneliness
is delicate.
But soft the view.
How lonely the flower?
The question of water
makes the word flower. Delicate.
Dip the lonely heart
vessels
Split ----
Purple. Describe the feeling.
How delicate the currant flower.
Loneliness is the curse.
The currant, the heart vessels
Split/
Describe how it pulls
the body, the worry
across a smear
of light -- inside the hollow
is the question of
the currant blossom
soft in watery light.
A loneliness is delicate.
The interior is fear.
In the currant watery question,
dip into the lonely
Heart vessels split
Purple, the feeling slips.
The body-word past her smears --
Why is the currant flower blossom
described as delicate?
Not like a flower
Not like a blossom
Whose sleeve, the black stem
is solid, strong
.