Variation on Black

from Color Poems by Greg Walker

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At the end of the day
As all of the color drains from the sky
Like tears from our eyes

As the trees turn to shadows
And houses into silhouettes

The crickets chirp our memories
The crescent moon reflects
An inner-light remembered

The way the other side of the world
Held us in its sky-blue hands
For a day
The way our souls swayed
Like tulips in a field
Because of love
Or maybe crumbled like a building on fire

The blare of the fire engine
Our prayers shot like basketballs
Into the hoop of God’s merciful net

The sweat of a day’s work
The people we met
With a color wheel of ink on their skin
And on their rich or poor clothing

Vibrant greetings and goodbyes
And stories full of the bending
Of the blues’ guitar
And the gold notes of flutes
And triumphant trumpets

Announcements of engagements
And births and movings on
And changing ups

Black is the perfect backdrop
Like a chalkboard
Ready for education’s marking
Like the universe before the Big Bang
To draw our own conclusions

Like silence is a canvas for sound
Black is the negative
That can attract the biggest positive

A rest in the music of color

Black is so often associated
With death or sorrow
Or nothing at all
A dark yang to life’s yin

But what if it’s also the ink
That keeps writing and writing
On life’s vast and unlimited page?

The period
Or perhaps the comma
The full or partial stop
That makes it possible for us to go again?

The rest from the ocean of iridescence
A shutting of the eyes
The turning off of the anxious
And hurried brain
For a night

Come to us, like a crow
The harbinger of magic and dreams
Another reality beyond
The manifestation of the eyes alone

Put your toes on the black line
Look back in wonder
And fall forward toward
Another day

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from Color Poems, released September 1, 2019
“Soul Music” by Jaybeerz

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Greg Walker Baltimore, Maryland

Indie rock, in the tradition of David Bazan, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Daniel Johnston, with a love for literature and lo fi music. Stays busy creating, so check back often.

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