구름아 (Dear Cloud)
By Sydney Lee
The cloud lingers by the lone tree
waiting for hours, for days, for me—
amongst residues of earth’s herbs: hebetude—
a lone tree.
Time collects dust, gentle against stone windowsill,
the kind that taints your glow, the Naples yellow
your wings once held captive.
Payne’s gray and blue flicker
against my stifled tears, consume my yellow
in its entirety.
Blue rage
ends before new Sunday.
Tears too big to swallow turn me into November,
weather my city, drown me in your Ultramarine—
Make heavy weather of my readily bare branches
captive to solitude, desolate cold
till you drift, drift away—
to fresh gesso,
new sovereignty.
I return to green.
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