red

This image went alongside a poem I wrote for the colo(u)r red. I chose the image for its saturation, the seductive texture of the cloth, and the way the knotted curtain looks like a large drop or a fist. I probably wouldn't choose this image now, and wouldn't write the same poem either. Here's the poem 'red'.

triumphant advertisement
you saturate reaction

delicious monster
you and sex run a thousand stop signs

Chinese pools
you wet yourself with double happiness and blood-starred armies

ancient purity
monthly drops arrive like warm reminders

Photo: Restaurant curtain and reflections, Guangzhou, China
Text: The poem 'red' is part of a series called 'colo(u)r', published as an e-book in Toronto,
and in my book, Delicate Access