Fragments of Love

The Green Light Dream

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Love’s a messy masterpiece.

This poem started as scribbles on a napkin, a jumble of thoughts after loving you.

I wrote a good omelette
and ate a hot poem
after loving you.

Buttoned my car
and drove my coat home
in the rain
after loving you.

I go on red
and stopped on green
floating somewhere in between
being here and being there
after loving you.

I rolled my bed
turned down my hair
slightly confused but
I don’t care

Laid out my teeth
and gargled my gown
then I stood
and laid me down
to sleep
after loving you.

This poem beautifully captures the disoriented and blissful state that often follows a loving encounter. The short, conversational lines mirror the speaker’s scattered thoughts and emotions. The imagery is vivid, from the “hot poem” (a metaphor for…