Scheele's Green

 

 

Scheele’s Green

 

Paint your own death

in my image.

Hang me on the wall,

and let me feast my eyes upon you 

as your assassin.

 

Such beauty;

you are at the mercy 

of sweet and pretty poison.

You are a victim of pomp,

as you worship my color of conceit.

I wrest from you

the count of every bead,

the count of every pleat,

the count of every breath.

 

May your last vision

be of beautiful fields of verdancy.

 

  

Linda Imbler

  

Linda Imbler’s poetry collections include seven published paperbacks: Big Questions, Little Sleep First Edition, Big Questions, Little Sleep Second Edition; Lost and Found; Red Is The Sunrise; Bus Lights; Travel Sight; Spica’s Frequency; and Doubt and Truth.  Soma Publishing has published her four e-book collections, The Sea’s Secret Song; Pairings, a hybrid of short fiction and poetry; That Fifth Element; and Per Quindecim. Examples of Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com