“Pineapple Stain”

by Eric Burgoyne

The blood dropped in crimson 

dots easily wiped away

though gone the pain remained

amber shaded, the textured pineapple

skin’s rounded cuts always most difficult

each point of the diamond shapes

so easily broken while hand cutting

swearing and hoping the neighbors

didn’t hear through open windows

crown leaves bold but simple

deadly large, jade hued shards 

angled with emerald as complement

bold waves of cerulean meshed

with Persian blue carefully soldered

below azure and sapphire sky pieces 

forming a cloud hinted heaven

twenty years hence my finger stings

of surgical slice and burn of molten lead

while gazing at the prickly glass fruit

in the transom above still hovering

between heaven and earth

Eric Burgoyne lives, surfs and writes from his home on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. He has an MA in Creative Writing - Poetry, from Teesside University, Middlesbrough England, and an MBA from the University of Reading, Berkshire, England. His poems have been published in The Dawntreader, Spillwords, Sledgehammer, Skink Beat Review, Rat’s Ass Review, and elsewhere.