The Blue Circus after the painting of the same name by Marc Chagall
by Shareen K. Murayma
How stained and cyan’d is one’s childhood when
anticipation meets the wildest I wield the heart commanding
your attention my green my horse and I revel
under the gold sky coined a crescent moon for
change my fault leaning into a fall
a blue fish sends flowers for her arrival of the heart
tattoos trail the sides of her pink
are the last to touch the sandy arena
Shareen K. Murayama lives in Honolulu, Hawaii. She has degrees in English from the University of Hawaii and Creative Writing from Oregon State University. Her art has been published or is forthcoming in The West Review, 433 Magazine, Ghostheart Lit., Crab Fat, Prometheus Dreaming, Inter|rupture & Phoebe, You can find her on IG & Twitter @ambusypoeming.