​                                              Created Sapphire

                                       There’s a sapphire in his love seat.
                                       It fell through pearl cushions and into the pit
                                       beneath the fabric of the winding sheet.
 
                                       The color of inkling, the shape of a teat,
                                       its brilliance disperses from where he sits.
                                       There’s a sapphire in his love seat.
 
                                       Created artificially in heat,
                                       it mirrors bunnies, bread, and what was writ
                                       beneath the fabric of the winding sheet.
 
                                       When they have tabled him with rigid feet
                                       and analyzed his entrails they will spit:
                                       “There’s a sapphire in his love seat!
 
                                       There’s a sapphire in his love seat
                                       beneath the fabric of the winding-sheet.”
 
                                                   
                                               RICHARD MARX WEINRAUB's book of poetry, Wonder Bread Hill, 
                                               was published by the University of Puerto Rico Press.  His poetry 
                                                has appeared in The Paris Review, Asheville Poetry Review, 
                                                South Carolina Review, Green Mountains Review, North 
                                                American Review, Measure, Evansville Review, Slate, River Styx.

                                                CREATED SAPPHIRE is from Lapidary, to be published as a full-length 
                                                book by Poets Wear Prada later this year.