British Petroleum now owns the rights to the
green/yellow phosphene,
lava-lamp-like sunburst billow
on the inside of my eyes upon waking.
Would the image were from
nigh two score years past,
the bedazzling Hess toy tanker
longed for two Christmases running,
each morning spying the snowfall
on the neighboring pine tree tops
from the vantage of my pillow.
