A Brief Encounter

Stark, a shock, magenta tree intensity matched, 
Briefly, against a sky darkening periwinkle
Swirled with black, call it dream this carriage
Of color held in its passage, these leaves red
When day-dressed, now in evening glamour, 
Black-rose, killer berry, two energies
Paired married two shades of somber beauty
Brief, eclipsed, as this one’s marriage, that one’s 
Country, sometimes handed on a silver platter
To a bully, sometimes just the music of the spheres