Cherry Blues

By Joshua Lefort

Aloft in thoughts canvassed by your brush,

I dissolve in cherry blues where

Chalked clouds float adrift,

And piercing birds soar aflight.

Sun-tamed, async with light’s bends,

I can’t help but arch with swept feet,

Sliding down this colourful spree.

In peace—I’m sound asleep.

But still I rise to unsung melodies

Perched on boughs parted

Where ripened green shears 

Through brittle bark.

By Terabithia I await you.

A lonely togetherness,

There we can lay in the silence we seek.

Until then, find me where roofs bleed melted rubber,

By tire marks and worn-out doors,

Lying flat, heaving in this drying heat,

By tarred pavement, parched of morning’s dew.

Amongst throngs and bustling sounds,

Call out to me, for strangers we are no more.

By Joshua Lefort