Double Portrait with Held Breath

black to shadow, and blue sparks struck from her - pastel pills crumbled in iodine vials, losing power hourly - warmth rose in all her tips then waved him in - a baton keeping peculiar time - swinging brass fish, violet violins: - acoustics echoing like the present full of a past with no future - where is that vanishing point - water here there the plunge - if no one is dancing then why all this music