COLORS

Autumn in upstate New York:
Nature’s flamboyant last flair of a dying flame!
I’m sitting up front next to the driver
Soaking up leafgreens
Ochre-yellows, bright oranges and reds
More varied in hue than printer’s colors.
Welcome assault on the senses.

Yet I remember the dream of two weeks ago:
Raw polished purple on a painter’s palette,
Tufts of blues and reds intermingled, yet separate,
Thick, a dense substance, varnished by my mind
Never yet seen in nature:
A reminder that color lives in my dreams
And red in my veins.