Red Skies by Berlinda Recacho

Red Skies (poem and collage illustration) by Berlinda Recacho (IG: birdlane_echoarc)

Red Skies

“Red skies at night”

Cy Curnin calls out 

in a song channeling 

an ominous thunderhead 

with bolts of synth flashing through 

hovering over the end of side B 

on a cassette taped off HFS in ‘92

But The Fixx don’t complete

the old mariner’s rhyme

of vermillion sunsets 

as a ‘sailors’ delight”

a sure sign of smooth sailing ahead

And they also ignore

the second half

of the verse urging that

red skies at morning are

a warning of unsettled weather 

and a portent of coming storms