Purple Light
Stephen Nelson
1.
Low-key
hair-wrapped aghori,
the clocks
are all wrong.
The walls
have messages
you’ll read
past midnight
rolling rivers
around us.
2.
No return
when here
her home
so hidden
when near her
and never
stop whispering -
the voice
enchants
sophisticated
insomnia.
3.
If I see you outside
with the wild garlic
(homes everywhere
melancholic, abandoned)
rich aromatic
rests the rain
on broken walls.
4.
Black dress summer
aghori not gone
installed as delicious
winds pull me to your
full violet expression.
5.
In the wood
the man remembers
the clay pit city
as ecstatic shivers
born in her
without the loss
of light.
Night was her timeline
treat
a strawberry lipped
life of her tangled
slick blackwater.
Stephen Nelson is a Scottish writer and visual poet, publishing internationally, exhibiting occasionally. “Goodness, Goddess” and “Toys for Telepaths” are his latest books of visual poetry from Redfoxpress, Ireland. See the Authors page for more Stephen Nelson at ē·rā/tiō. Stephen Nelson is at Instagram @afterlights70.