Tell me what you see in it : <br />The pine tree like a Rorschach-blot <br />black against the orange light : <br /> <br />Plant an orange pumpkin patch <br />which at twelve will quaintly hatch <br />nine black mice with ebon coach, <br /> <br />or walk into the orange and make <br />a devil's cataract of black <br />obscure god's eye with corkscrew fleck; <br /> <br />put orange mistress half in sun, <br />half in shade, until her skin <br />tattoos black leaves on tangerine. <br /> <br />Read black magic or holy book <br />or lyric of love in the orange and black <br />till dark is conquered by orange cock, <br /> <br />but more pragmatic than all this, <br />say how crafty the painter was <br />to make orange and black ambiguous.<br /><br />Sylvia Plath<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/black-pine-tree-in-an-orange-light/
