Carmine Sunshine

The color depends on the amount of sun.
Those fingers dipped
into the cochineal pull
down the sky.
The rays
the warmth
the brighter
the sun shines
the red gets deeper.
Follow it to the center.
See the sun again,
pull it down, drag it down.

The color depends upon it.
Follow it to the center,
feel the sun again.
Go deeper, deeper still
This is no maze
this, is my heart.