1.  Bitter tea calls me honey
So I let the honey flow
It’s funny — I call her sweetie

2. You wear your passion like a suit
Little cardinal
You never give it a rest

My little phoenix outside my window
Challenging winter
Defying its grey, dirty stranglehold

You rebuke me for my morosity
By just being
In and out of color, not defined by relativity

3. Attracted by motion
Held by color, stayed by time
I swallow oceans

4. Ragged edges of pain
Reflections attract and warn
Red flows in the future

5. Spring chortles at
The chalky sheetrock
Hiding poorly in the grass