New Poetry by Stanford Cheung

Pewter

is not what defines color,

for this poem I wrote was before love,

before the darkness poured

a half bottled week,

painted so quickly

into bent back fear.

The shades, that keep

our days and nights,

before the slow witness

of our time,

where no one directs

what's right or wrong

but an outgrown canvas,

gliding paler down chests

of past and ties.

How I wish to catch another glimpse

of your black pewter dress, how I could

touch your rising arms, not to wake, but

to be woken in your dreams.

How I wish of your colors, outside all

spectrum, no different from different

springs than my distant aged eyes-

How those gaits, I choose

to follow, of a permafrost you,

a light that needs more flint

than your little song you always

sung,

- Stanford Cheung 2016

Stanford Cheung is a Canadian poet and musician from Toronto. He is the author of the chapbook "Any Seam or Needlework" from The Operating System Press (2016).