'Kill Me With Color'
Red is emotional. Can red persuade you?
Blue is there with purple flowers.
And then it is always seeing yellow
peak through mixed with orange.
Don’t forget brown. Brown and black
are warm. Velvet feels black.
Suns are white-yellow, specked by orange.
Flowers and blue and skies.
Spaniels are brown with white tips.
Spring leaves are green. Some people
eat licorice.
Rivers are not red--sunsets are of course.
I saw a small red river once.
From out of two perfect lips of a
perfectly beautiful young face emerged
this small red river. This can be a
white shock of finding a sister with a
small red river lying on a green kitchen
floor. This gray school day was the day
she put out her light, and white, blue,
violet, green, yellow, orange, red, brown,
black, I saw in the air before I passed out.
Chiron Review
Winter, 1999