The Colors of Desire

The color of desire:

       green, sometimes,

or the suddenness of red

       when flesh

catches fire and spills

       onto sheets

of crumpled white

       orgasmic nights

becoming blue

       in the after-glow

of spent desire.

Neil Ellman

Neil Ellman lives and writes in New Jersey.  He has published hundreds of poems in print and online journals, anthologies, broadsides and chapbooks throughout the world.