colores primarios: rojo

a 1945 bottle of Romanée-Conti, a

telephone booth in london, a rouge

sunflower, a covered bridge in green

river, vt, a basket of juicy ripe tomatoes,

a branch of cherries bearing down as

ornaments, apples bearing all shades

thereof, autumn barberries, tori’s hair

after clairol torrid torch crimson &

clinique’s sebastian potion no. 9 has

been applied, color of the sky at

night if a sailor is delighted, color of

the girl’s hood who was warned of the

 BIG BAD WOLF’s sexual appetite, a

little wheelbarrow of the same pigment,

carrie’s body drenched in pig’s blood

at the prom, bricks, cardinals, ladybugs,

hester prynne’s letter A sewn, rome’s

god of war & the planet of that same

hue, the attractive choice of a 1000 logos,

m. fox’s matte red lips, bunnicula’s eyes,

chomsky’s necktie & the nose of many a

clown.