How to say how I long for you<\/p>\n
Like an obsession, black, oozing,<\/p>\n
Gripping my mind with inky talons<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll handle it. With my hands I\u2019ll handle it.<\/p>\n
Grappling. My fingers lock around its neck and I squeeze.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll squeeze until it bursts in colors of crimson and ultramarine<\/p>\n
Black and white and emerald green. Yellow oxide.<\/p>\n
Colors of flames and explosions. Colors of forests
\nand dark haunted lakes. Sunsets, fogged banks, and cityscapes<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll squeeze these tubes of color onto a palette and scoop them up<\/p>\n
With bristles, real and synthetic.<\/p>\n
The only way to tell you what you do to me<\/p>\n
Is through acrylics.<\/p>\n
On stretched canvas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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