Fire and Ice, Putting Our Heads Together Migraine Poetry Contest 2011.

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Putting Our Heads Together
Poetry Contest, 2011

All poems entered can be found HERE.

Fire and Ice
by Laura Merleau

The cold blue is dripping
onto the hot yellow.
The hot yellow is held
up by hotter orange and
red. All around
the edges a cold sickly
green impinges on
my eyes and some
other part of me
that deserves to
be named yet I
have no name for.

Pure pain, I’d call
it – but pain is
not a body part.

Or is it? The
colors in my head

meanwhile go on
swirling through
their acrylic on
canvas choreography.

Here’s another
unusual pairing:
the cold black and hot
red creeping in along
the bottom right
edge of the frame.
I will not call
this pain. I will
not be so nice.

I will enter the
dark center of
these bright colors
and wait out
the storm. Next
time, and next time,
maybe I’ll know
a way to stay
centered the way
I am now. Just
say it. I am

centered. And it will
be so? It will be
so. It will be. In
how many minutes?
How many years?
When it is time.
I will be ready.

Last updated April 5, 2011.

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