Blake Everitt

Matisse stands with the weaving perianth

embroidered robin of the orange leaf

calycle wing of colour-canticles –

bring Venus-algae from dark places

to leave the waiting antiphons

combing the air with brushes of light

in dreams of bread and wine

haunted by the Date Palm’s perfect line

the willow-tulip bows its head

leaving its reflection there.

In fuchsia-embers of fugues we breathe.

Matisse stands,

an embroidered lemon-chalice.

Split grains

in mandarin light

the rosé-blossom tide

sings of spring anemones.

The lavender-cantor of hidden ambergris

casts a spell

as the hespera soil receives

its clementine glass of silence.

The lemon-clef dawn

in seraphs of pollen

the cherub-water ripple

of leaves, calm in the broken hourglass.

Blake Everitt (b. 1989) has had poems published in Harbinger Asylum (Texas), Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts (MA), Time of Singing (Pennsylvania), The Poetry Village, Black Lives Matter UK, Quarr Abbey Newsletter, Eye Flash Poetry, The Recusant, Dead Beats, Friendly Fire Collective (Philadelphia), C.H.S newsletter, the anthology Book of Christian Poems, and The Blue Morphosis by GreenFingers Recordings. He has poems forthcoming in Hawk & Whippoorwill (MA), and The Dawntreader.