you as a paint palette

I.

your typical eyes are not mirrors here.
if you were true blue you'd be gray.
color however is an ankle-deep pond.
(I've spent whole summers fishing it!)

II.

you may be more than the sum of your colors
if I were calculating
or accomplished at arithmetic.

III.

when the air is brown
my face is red—
color is not as shallow
as I once said.



-spring 2008