Poetry by Caroline Am Bergris
QUANTUM
It was a miniature hemisphere
of chocolate ice cream,
in a silver chalice,
with a gleaming spoon.
When is enough, enough?
Having just one scruple?
The first four notes of Beethoven's fifth?
Taking four hundred pills like sprinkles?
I skimmed the dome with my spoon,
and licked off the coating.
Then I picked out the dark chips
and crunched down on them.
Finally, I anointed my mouth
with the frozen chrism itself,
That one scoop could have been six,
or ten, or a hundred.
NOCTURNE
I opened the blind to reveal the riches of the night…
Red of the roads
Orange of the tree bark
Yellow of the moon
Green of the cat’s eyes
Blue of the grass
Indigo of the sky
Violet of the clouds
Run from the high chroma of the day!
Roam in this rainbow instead.
Caroline Am Bergris is a half-Colombian, half-Pakistani poet living in London. Her poems have been published, online and in print, in Europe and America.
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