Challenge from Jennifer Jowett: Write a poem intertwining color and Syntesthesia – igniting sensory pathways in the brain that mix up the senses (what does smell taste like? what texture is color?).
Polished Tarnish
glittery flickers and glimmers of 1970s festivities, memories of Miriam’s simmering skillets, scents of Christmas dinner deliciousness, mothering me: metallic fillings of bitten aluminum foil, agitating through the roof tooth nerves! bidding forgiveness, then tinkly and ringly tintinnabulation such merriment foretells of silvery and harmonistic bells, bells, bells
shimmer disappears, silver tarnishes
constipated cumulonimbus thunderheads – threatening vistas, tinting windows of diminished consciousness, disturbing my mother’s pallor as she relinquished this world – the glitzy glamour girl of the 1950s, spirit withering, dimming, sinking in 2016, sprinting into the swirling, twirling, Starry, Starry Night
re-enter the shimmer
visions of her inspiration silly mirages? optic illusions? mistaken apparitions? NO. miraculocirrus Miriam – audible, visible, omniscient, present!
Polished Tarnish
glittery flickers and glimmers
of 1970s festivities, memories
of Miriam’s simmering skillets,
scents of Christmas dinner deliciousness,
mothering me: metallic fillings
of bitten aluminum foil, agitating
through the roof tooth nerves!
bidding forgiveness, then
tinkly and ringly tintinnabulation
such merriment foretells
of silvery and harmonistic bells, bells, bells
shimmer disappears, silver tarnishes
constipated cumulonimbus thunderheads –
threatening vistas, tinting windows
of diminished consciousness, disturbing
my mother’s pallor as she
relinquished this world –
the glitzy glamour girl
of the 1950s,
spirit withering,
dimming, sinking in 2016, sprinting
into the swirling, twirling,
Starry, Starry Night
re-enter the shimmer
visions of her inspiration
silly mirages?
optic illusions?
mistaken apparitions?
NO. miraculocirrus Miriam –
audible, visible, omniscient,
present!
-Kim Johnson