Hues (Memories of Africa)

Liquid orange silver sliding;
clichéd crimson sky and still
more lovely than a postcard.
Tinted lilac firelit granite
crinkles, smiling, at the sun
shadowed smoky grazes stretch.
Rumpled sheets of powdered ice-cream
gently stained by molten gold
sculpted quartz by careless feet.

Rippling panes of tufted tundra:
terracotta pastel-fired
sharp mosaics of thirsty loam.
Cold-still branches soak the sunlight
dappled brown from burlap-greys
silent in the crystal haze.
Blinkless, bloodwashed, bloated, blazing
daylight heaves into the sky
burning whitewashed morning brown.


Anderson n'Swaart

©2001

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