In obvious depiction
lie swimming landscapes
wilted colors
and embassies of the change of state

our Persephone
in the dented loss of sleep
in a cute way
that painting is a too-clumsy object

that can only cure time
as it will never change
though maybe elements of what we would recognize as star glass

again curses cast into gloom
as a fresh summer warning
and our fingers have no fuses.