16 July 2006 | Vol. 6, No. 2
Red Bricked
This is her spot:
a child in an apple tree, eyes falling
into the way things want to be
seen: fence sky lilacs stones:
what matters next is what
might just happen: the color
of bricks in her mind,
more red than they actually are,
brown really, but she makes them
as red as she wants them to be,
under a leap-year moon when the boy
enters her mouth, and leaves her
full of clouds.
About the author:
Most recently, Evelyn Lauer's poems have appeared in English Journal, Pegasus, and Conte. She is a student in Texas State University's MFA program.
For further reading:
Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 6, No. 2, where "Red Bricked" ran on July 16, 2006. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
