Thank you to editor Mark Antony Rossi for publishing 

my poem in the July issue of Ariel Chart.

https://www.arielchart.com/2023/07/scheeles-green.html?sc=1688474968234#c3140908679112181666

Scheele’s Green

 

Paint your own death

in my image.

Hang me on the wall,

and let me feast my eyes upon you 

as your assassin.

 

Such beauty;

you are at the mercy 

of sweet and pretty poison.

You are a victim of pomp,

as you worship my color of conceit.

I wrest from you

the count of every bead,

the count of every pleat,

the count of every breath.

 

May your last vision

be of beautiful fields of verdancy.