On Emerging from a Coma, Certain that Mouth-to-mouth Resuscitation Has
Been Administered by Pablo Picasso
The taste of matchboxes and
Crumpled cigarette
Packets brought me back:
He blew color into my
Lungs, as I pulled blue
Bullfights from his tongue.
His breath brought me back from
Guernica, back from black and
White and gray;
He tasted like music and
Crushed wineglasses.
He tasted like
Christ, and twisted wire.
Rhonda Poynter has recently had poetry, essays, flash fiction and other writing published through Triggerfish, vox poetica, Sleet, Red Fez, Subprimal Poetry Arts, Houseboat, Poetry Pacific, The Lake, Ekphrastic, Soliloquies Flash Anthology, and other journals, anthologies and newspapers. Her second collection of poetry, Borrowed Time, is pending a late 2016/early 2017 release.