PAINTING

                 A melody a warm voice
                 Cries from a throat
                 Nostalgia Dream
                 A flight of yellow and green balloons
                 The gentle softness of a head on black paper
                 The blue and white of a face
                 The green eyes of adolescence
                 The tracing of a hand
                 A drop of white blood
                 A warm mass of hair on wet sand
                 A long beach.
                 Long as life
                 Monotonous as time
                 Empty like a tired mind
                 Pure as a smile
                 A glass red as blood
                 An old couple sitting weary
                 There on the white bench.