Ruby Red

By Harrison Hughes

Compel me to sit, and I’ll explain,

Speak to me in prose and vain,

Are your assumptions on nose:

My greatest meekness is in my name,

Seeking for me just to wry,

“Have something you wish to share?”

As if I knew you would even cry,

From buzzing off brown, fragrant hair.

Weak as fluff topped on a lourie,

Befall my countenance: remorse,

Long I do wait for satori,

Looking for please without force.

In sweet vibration, in bitter cold,

Pigment stains in fractal bold,

I would not be as I were before,

Crossing out the washroom door.