Difficultify

Photo by Karolina Badzmierowska on unsplash.com. Thank you, Ms. Badzmierowska.

Friends with lilacs.
Quotidian.
Meridian.
Viridian.

Crushed violets
heal the static.
Undramatic.
Aromatic.

Ceremony.
Send her roses.
Testimony.
Matrimony.

Go to Asia
on a kite’s tail
tied with freesia —
synesthesia.

NOTE: Thank you for reading. The artwork is beautiful, I think, and I’m grateful for the way writers have the freedom of acquiring art on unsplash. This poem has been a study — my writers’ group meets in June and the prompt was to use or imply the meanings of the words “test,” “synesthesia,” and “viridian.” As I worked to create four versions of this poem, I ended up drawing a pineapple, and then I did some self-study in algebra.