After Frahn Koerner
The blue lady in pink
is a sad background
a messy diamond
gridlocked by the calendar of her days
Self-medicating
she bleeds through chaos
sees fluorescent sound
hears psychedelic colour
But she’s still a puppet
picking her skin
and the handle on her back
pulls her back
to background
Written for Rattle’s September 2026 Ekphrastic Challenge
Cover image by Turgay Koca on Pexels.com
The artist Frahn Koerner selected this poem from the submissions:
https://rattle.com/a-gateway-opens-by-danielle-blinka/
The Rattle editor chose this one:
https://rattle.com/stepping-through-by-iryna-hall/
