Chameleons

“Chameleons” Chameleons many shades of blue pretty beautiful things given time change their colours not so delphinium belladonna blue Blue sky hypnotises blooms face to the sun smiling to wave Apollo in subtle fragrance the wanting need to get closer around their feet, circling geckos 5 toes like man leave their love-drugged marks their tales moving words written marks retreating in Time’s sands chameleons pretty beautiful things given time change their colours Blue sky hypnotises blooms even the sky comes with conditions (LadyLabyrinth / 2023) Halloween approaches.... “I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind. A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her kind. I have found the warm caves in the woods, filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves, closets, silks, innumerable goods; fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves: whining, rearranging the disaligned. A woman like that is misunderstood. I have been her kind. I have ridden in your cart, driver, waved my nude arms at villages going by, learning the last bright routes, survivor where your flames still bite my thigh and my ribs crack where your wheels wind. A woman like that is not ashamed to die. I have been her kind.” (Anne Sexton/Her Kind).