Ruby flowers

Ruby flowers grow on fingers

rusty gray marbled-

fragmentarity of the axis

leaden and

a crumbling green dawn

electric as

a bullet

oily and

burning

a thick pink day

like cotton candy-

unstable vibrating

pinkness

like youth

transparent and

astounded

ruby flowers grow on fingers

like poetry swells on vocal cords

deaf and

bound in

the amber chthon

of cherry

haze and

everywhere

ruby

flowers

like

coral

cuts.