Cling

“Child with continuing cling issue his No in final fire”

             -Gwendolyn Brooks

sapphires are lovely as the Star of Bombay revered by Child.

she embodies its six rays replacing spoiled limbs. with

heat she hopes to change her lack luster, halt the continuing

spectrum a cousin sapped from her. a vampire’s cling,

she remembers his as cornflower blue. a distracting issue

a lover is not guilty of. how does he know it’s a turn off? he

cannot enter her that way nor retire to any position. No

moment to gaze without recall. shadows cannot swing in

the amber light. she admires little if at all. a final

twinge when lover pinch upon entering Crayola blush fire.

Copyright © 2019 by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on June 18, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets.