Ways To Be For The Foolish, The Beautiful, The Tired

Be breathless at dawn.

Be stupefied, tripping over the day's cords.

Be turquoise, suck the color from the night.
Be the fantasies that you color in.

Be the monarchy, choose your Kings and Queens.
Be the Jack, don't stay for long.

Be red, don't be a geyser.
Be globs of mercury, rising in the new season.

Be careless with double-magnet hearts.
Be mindful of June bugs on the windshield.

Be green, the way only paper burns.
Be saved from the blizzard of thorns.

Be something, anything apparent.
Be the lighthouse that never fogs.

Be neither what you will nor were,
Be my breath of new,
Be my breath of dawn.