1.      Colors in the neighbors’ swimming pool

Like colors in my mind,

Sun’s crayon

Hawaiian clear

Dash of magenta azure,

Make me want to jump inside

Like a cat over the stair railing.

Colors in the neighbors’ swimming pool

Like colors in my mind,

Make me remember our coat closet wall’s scribbles

Zigzagging orange and blue crayon

Like a bicycle wheel on fire—

My brother made the scribbles

They were beautiful

They made me want to jump inside

My brother’s mind.

Colors in the neighbors’ swimming pool

Turn to a reflection of stars when night has come

And so we close ourselves up and pull down our blinds

At the end of the day.

2.      Colors on a canyon

Just appeared to my New Year eyes

Took me so close to heaven

When the old year was gone

And the New Year was crying hi.

Colors on a canyon—

Everywhere my New Year feet hiked

Sunlight saturated nature

Glorious flashing blinding daystar

Under God’s chariot.

Creeks and gullies, hidden and half frozen

Powdered sugar snow, crusted with porcelain ice

Fat mosses growing

I thought, this is a year, it’s going to be a year

No reason, no reason to fear—

While glorious flashes

Splintered purple and crystal

Fled from the feeble effort of my camera.

Sun like fishes going over a waterfall.

Now let Creation protect its frailest light

When the words that are lost within us

Reach for the night.