When you get seriously old your dreams vacate nowhere
If you’re lucky just as daybreak pink seeps between a needles’ eye
a yellow jack knife suspended there
simulacrum of Jerry’s red army knife
the airport servant flung into his authorized bin
nights later two peppers
one orange one yellow
yellow dragon a favorable sign
yellow as the golden mean
alchemy’s transit _ : ‘ ‘ ‘
orange as the monks’ unison
signifying fire
Steadily your hand holds the broadest knife
slicing veggies giving each its own shape
concentrating to cut and separate