National Poetry Month 2014: Helen Hajnoczky,

The Rubricator

as an aside, a wave caught mid crash

           ink stippled vellum,

     pricked for a fever.

                     but why should I whisper?

No blue blush of crustacean

a cup of ocean is clear,

            but drop upon drop it builds until blue

                        the rubricator begins to drool.

In the morning, the clouds run red.

In my dream, the water was red.

Boil the sea creatures,

                        their shells become red.

Helen Hajnoczky's first book Poets and Killers: A Life in Advertising was published in 2010 by Snare Books, an imprint of Invisible Publishing. She blogs http://ateacozyisasometimes.blogspot.ca/ and tweets @helenhajnoczky. Her most recent chapbooks are The Double Bind Dictionary from above/ground press, and in False Friends from No Press.