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Cerenga
The above linked poems have 12 one-line
links. Each poem uses a color theme and
Copyright © Alexis K. Rotella 1997
EXAMPLES : BLUES [Cerenga] with ai li and Alexis K.
Rotella
A Cerenga with ai li and Alexis K. Rotella
blues into night the jazz musician's marshy smell cornflowers the morning after topaz ring articificially dyed ordering curacao to match her shoes admiring the bumps in his jeans a glimpse of indigo sweat shop Titian sky with tiny bird stains on the aquamarine swimsuit she sells her turquoise ring for booze the collection of lapis lazuli her raison d'etre morning glories from Grandma's forgotten seeds
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An Ebenga with Alexis K. Rotella and ai li
the famous trial attorney a black magician he grows lignum vitae the last rites revive her widow's tweeds suit the young blonde full of beer the men who face the tornado fairy lights dimming night native offering a small plane yams ibiji carving in the shadow of a hut apache tears clutched tightly again comes the grief eye patch on the victor coal garden on the dresser staring into it memories of the dark hole of calcutta
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An Ivenga with ai li and Alexis K. Rotella
the cry of an orphan elephant masai mara ivory beads she says they're only glass the monocle cracks on her cream dress pearl cadillac convertible filled with altar boys off-white thong on the wash line Sobi Shi's codpiece blows into the lily bed out of wind pouring milk into coffee the white cat sits on her bridal gown in the unopened box shroud vanilla ice-cream tonight's hospital dessert framed in a dark window full moon albino buffalo ushers in the Aquarian age
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An Orenga with Alexis K. Rotella and ai li
California poppies the hills aflame ellendales pale at noon the gold in a house chinese new year a dowager's smile one tooth glinting "Orangiiiiiiina" I call again to the night sunset captured on paper the bonfire of old love letters fresh juice from mandarins cooling down pumpkin people on the porch one waves the shade before red autumn leaves monk washing saffron temple spires at dawn
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A Redenga with Alexis K. Rotella and ai li
in the prickly pear startle of red moist on the slab calf's liver his scarlet tongue inside me crimson panties on the natural blonde garnets spill from the pomegranate fake blood on the movie set dipping them in chocolate heart-shaped strawberries the ruby above cleavage my white dress with cherries no longer fits lingonberry pies in her freezer a street walker who looks like Carmen remembering poppies at Verdun
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A Rosenga with Alexis K. Rotella and ai li
the Mary Kay cadillac putters along in front of the Pink Poodle his license plate a chunk of rose quartz in the mailbox lifting my mood the pale Mexican primrose two streaks of blush on the manager's cheeks the memo admonishes women not to wear baby pink Madam Alfred roses blossom in the shade in a dress matching her boudoir Barbara Cartland the glass of gin with angostura bitters untouched conjunctivitis giving eye colour uncovering spigelia root in dark earth a finger moist from me
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A Verdenga with Alexis K. Rotella and ai li
$4,000 emerald a friend's face the same color Balenciaga dress matching leaves with a pair of scissors my young mother cuts the grass the shorn hat of an angry pixie at Butterfield's a first edition of Robin Hood invalid dreaming of the forest Russian immigrant planting a birch the irish gardener with his green gloves a tiny sip from the glass of chartreuse eye to eye with a caterpillar a bug in the marguerita glass wild mint tea after zazen
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A Violenga with Alexis K. Rotella and ai li
in her coffin Baba in a lacy lavender dress during the wake scent of lilacs painting of a purple tipi wins first prize against a mauve sky war memorial candied violets spilled on the persian rug a child mixing red and blue paint magenta the first time I heard the word looking up the colour of pansy the purple finch anything but valentino creation matching her eyes liz taylor late wisteria festooning the haunted house the woman picking petunias has no shadow
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A Yellenga with Alexis K. Rotella and ai li
Hunched over like his sunflowers old man yellowing photographs on the grand piano a finch feather in Grandma's gold locket the orphan with jaundice plays alone she caught it from a toilet seat in the stained glass window sun bumble bee inside the amber cabochon sting oozing pus calling him what he is coward he buys lemons in the winter a bouquet of goldenrod at the church supper pollen on broken bread
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