sunset - 12/18/98

it's like yellow orange bark tangled in glitter, giving off rays like that of a million pepper halogens. as you walk toward it to take a look like a tortoise approaches what, to us, is nothing, you feel you should run. you might as well be that green sloth. as the electric hawk, made of shadows and fire nears, you try to hide and somehow find warmth in what you can't see. it's blurring the colors and shapes that you see as you dive and submerge yourself in the last of the golden syrup as it slowly boils and blisters your skin, but it's gone and the next time you see it will only come after you accept its loss. you've got nothing but yourself as your overhead turns
blue
        orange
                pink
                        violet
                                black