Delirium
written by: Rita B. Rose
Fade into La La Land
night shades Vallhalic eyes
pulls the parched tongue
dances on perspiring bones
A frightened moon
gambols across dry skin
rolls across my forehead
brows, breasts, and limbs
exhaled it sailed returned on a wind
Cresting forest firs and pines
caps snowy white sublime
I float past bloodshot mesas
bleached by the sun
And in a crystal mineral stream
mauve trout swim about
flying from my blistered mouth
as all trawl
to break free from La La Land
with me, as I struggle to get out!
Rita B. Rose is a published author, poet and playwright and is currently Long Island’s LGBTQ poet laureate. Her poems have been published in anthologies abroad and in the United States of America.
