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August 2022 Fiction Contest: Letters from a synesthete
A dazed yellow pirouetting into sight
drunken in its beauty.
A harsh note leaves with it the bitter taste of vinegar
and a streak of crimson red.
Notes inked into flesh.
Followed by plumes of color.
Shades of gray and white and black
the shadowed image of hollowed bone shown in sync with the airy crescendos.
Organ and theremin spiraled in parallel
with burgundy and charcoal melting its way off paper.
Beats engulfed by waves of blue
saddened with the fading tune.
While whips of orange brand themselves into the sky
fading the shades into one
as the melody begins anew…
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I am someone who experiences synesthesia which in my case means that when I hear words or names I see a color in my head which is what I wanted to show in this poem.