CLOSE WINDOW

 from Tulips

It closes up in the cool of the afternoon.
It has your wings and a tulip-like demand curve.
Its notions right expectation like a flag over the sea,
though I must say that left to its own devices
expectation pushes off in several directions,
the old brain with the new brain in her arms.
The tulip salesmen separate into beams, rays, drops, and crosshatchings,
thus the tulip salesmen are midnight and the demand curve is the sun.

Tulips: A Collaboration

Words by Charles North
Pictures by Trevor Winkfield

(2004)