Black Pine Tree In An Orange Light

Tell me what you see in it:

The pine tree like a Rorschach-blot

black against the orange light:

Plant an orange pumpkin patch

which at twelve will quaintly hatch

nine black mice with ebon coach,

or walk into the orange and make

a devil's cataract of black

obscure god's eye with corkscrew fleck;

put orange mistress half in sun,

half in shade, until her skin

tattoos black leaves on tangerine.

Read black magic or holy book

or lyric of love in the orange and black

till dark is conquered by orange cock,

but more pragmatic than all this,

say how crafty the painter was

to make orange and black ambiguous.