ORANGE

ORANGE

instead of apple
(green, red
or rainbow skin)

picked
an orange

colour a
misinterpretation of red
reinterpretation
of yellow

nevertheless
how that colour
did warm me
as I lay
with you you
in the tall grass

cobra of this very colour
luxuriating in its supreme
extreme elapid
deadly beauty

shrugging its shoulders
mission unaccomplished

shoulders it
definitely
     deeply does not have