1. Ode to 
    1. a sly fox on a 
      1. white 

      Silk Pillow (For Tom Miller)

by Avon Bellamy

 

 

And then there was a fox who smiled color bright and useful

he pierced all worlds with his intellect and a rainbow that turned

vile things to that which brought wonder

watermelon to rind

thought to rune rhythms

 

Lookee lookee

By God I spin a mystery

and no man catches me 

but me

 

Oh how sly the Fox on the white silk pillow

 

The grinning Fox catches color like a god

and holds it like lightning in his black hand

and speaks by color to say:

 

I mold what I hold

my pigments quite bold

scream loud to tell swell

what I do well

 

Come step into my light my colors

swimdance into the worlds they create

that jig and twirl in my ordered order

banking off the walls of a starburst universe

like the ballet of pool balls forced apart by the color yellow

 

I am the god of hues that grins from tables chairs

and other such things

that laughs bright belly chuckles belt buckle low 

every color seeking a place to go

 

All the while I come to you with colors up my sleeves

a too bright magic that skips about unseen 

in a mind as balanced as an equation

as timeless as a quasar

 

Ole Tom be laughing buckets at us 'cause he's got colors

up his sleeves and he be's a real sly Fox riding on this here

real white pillow

 

Grinning to beat the band

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