9:16










This morning she left home to buy lemons
--- six for a dollar ninety-eight ---
but down at the corner while
a yellow light

blinks caution

she thinks

on the bitterness

of unbroken silence--

the taste of acid irony
proposed to fill the

empty air and still--

she longs for

the translucence of lemons.

Farther down the road
a bouquet of yellow balloons

battles hard against the wind

--- How much will you take for resiliency ---

The balloon man only smiles.

(Image: Wassily Kandinsky: Komposition VII)