Poetry
February 2022
5 Poems by Aidan Jones
Where eyelids are orange peels / And the sunlight throws / fuzzy, fizzy orange and yellow starbursts
By Aidan Jones
February 5, 2022

1
Orange
I want to live with you in perpetual sunset
Where everything is lit by natural Edison lightbulbs
And your lips are orange sherbet
Where eyelids are orange peels
And the sunlight throws
fuzzy, fizzy orange and yellow starbursts
Across the screens of my eye
Whose juice runs down my cheeks
Where I can finally taste
The sad energy built up
In my roots
From farmers’ past
Everything is incredibly warm
Everything is incredibly safe
2
If I can’t love you
Then I will love these instead:
The moon, stars, myself
3
“if I could support you with poetry money I would”
“if I could support you with
poetry money I would”
little did you know your work
nickels your irises
and its
recitation rattles the
timbre of your voice
with change,
pouring pennies straight down
my ear canal
4
Satin, ochre, lavender, charcoal
and you are downstairs making
peanut stew
And part of me is very hungry
and wants you to continue cooking
but another wants you to
be my alibi for this dusk
5
I want to wake up with you
whoever you are
and lay there with your warmth
under the blanket of the mid-morning fog
and it’s muted sunlight through french blinds
continuing to doze off and return
to a dream
Aidan Jones (he/they) is a researcher, developer, and creator. They enjoy working on projects in their spare time, like algorithmically generated typing exercise poetry and an educational video series that explores topics relating to gender, music and society aidanjon.es.