
He saw, on his morning walk,
a house with cobalt walls
and pink eves,
But, on drawing closer…
the eves became brown
and the walls, gray.
He thought about imagination
and the word ‘image’
almost within it.
He had, as always, a goal in mind,
but this route was chaotic,
random with bias.
He chanced on a stick
in a gutter,
long, straight, lanceolate.
And imagined two spears,
one pink,
one cobalt,
Except the pink was really
like a filet
of wild Atlantic salmon,
And the blue was
like sparks of
violet and green.
He saw two knights
rushing each other,
red pike, blue pike…
And stumbled at the sign,
his goal,
“Matmor Rd”.
Mata mor,
mata moro,
kill Moor.
He drifted to the Crusades —
his fifth-grade teacher
described their futility;
Yet, he later read
about the 200-year
Kingdom of Jerusalem,
Probably not so futile
to the knightly order
for a long time.
She also remarked
on the Moorish failure
in Iberia,
But, the Caliphate endured
600 years, three times
my country’s age.
Images returned —
the Knight Templar,
the Saracen knight;
He thought
perhaps that
was the whole point,
To impale each other
on beautiful lances,
salmon and electric,