archives, poetry

Sex In Color.

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The water is a deep green,

emerald and dark as night.

The setting sun dances home slowly now,

exuding out a light purple hand

towards the yellow clouds.

Her hair reflects orange oceans.

Fluid and flowing,

don’t forget to pray

in the secret spaces of my mind.

Between black and white

the gray exists.

Between consent and force.

Refusal and acceptance.

Blueberries do not exist here.

Rubies are extinct.

The purples and yellows

do not shine orange.

They vary in shade and shape

appearing depressed and lifeless.

One can only guess the gray away,

shame it until it forgives the truth.

But the gray speaks of stories

of growth and pain and youth.

And the most brilliant trees

and the most beautiful flowers cannot compare

with the dark radiance of gray.

Repressed until now,

she picks up the pieces

and places them in her basket.

She prances them around slowly,

dropping them as placeholders

to remember where she had been before.

Gray knees scraped aqua

with the stains of innocence.

It felt like days mixed with centuries

She knew the shapes were silenced,

and the gray clouds pass by again,

whispering secret songs of surrender.

She knows the truth is always hidden

in the depths of the gray darkness.

So she returns to the beginning.

It looks different than she remembered.

It is painted miraculous colors,

infinitely expansive.

The gray spaces have been filled with a bucket of beauty.

The gray experiences have been replaced with a void of voice.

The gray sex has been overpowered

by the openness of the ocean.

The colors I bring

to the places I travel

know no gray.

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cheyaneCheyane Reisner is a feminist and animal rights activist. She studies the interrelation of gender and government and believes in the power of words and language as medicinal healing for the earth and the skies. You can find her on Facebook.

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