{"id":27071,"date":"2020-10-23T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=27071"},"modified":"2020-10-23T07:30:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:30:32","slug":"local-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=27071","title":{"rendered":"Local Color"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let’s end the week with a mix of colors, captured on these strangely sunny October days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many come from plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some come from houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I will probably go out and photograph some of the famous painted houses next week. For today, it is just color that caught my eye, a bit of cheer in cheerless times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some are just part of the streets…. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is surely fitting that the poem below was first published in The Southern California Anthology<\/em> in fall 1999. If I had energy and time I would go and photograph all of the colors Piercy lists – but that has to wait for another day. Or another lifetime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Colors passing through us<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

BY MARGE PIERCY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purple as tulips in May, mauve
into lush velvet, purple
as the stain blackberries leave
on the lips, on the hands,
the purple of ripe grapes
sunlit and warm as flesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every day I will give you a color,
like a new flower in a bud vase
on your desk. Every day
I will paint you, as women
color each other with henna
on hands and on feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red as henna, as cinnamon,
as coals after the fire is banked,
the cardinal in the feeder,
the roses tumbling on the arbor
their weight bending the wood
the red of the syrup I make from petals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orange as the perfumed fruit
hanging their globes on the glossy tree,
orange as pumpkins in the field,
orange as butterflyweed and the monarchs
who come to eat it, orange as my
cat running lithe through the high grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yellow as a goat\u2019s wise and wicked eyes,
yellow as a hill of daffodils,
yellow as dandelions by the highway,
yellow as butter and egg yolks,
yellow as a school bus stopping you,
yellow as a slicker in a downpour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is my bouquet, here is a sing
song of all the things you make
me think of, here is oblique
praise for the height and depth
of you and the width too.
Here is my box of new crayons at your feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green as mint jelly, green
as a frog on a lily pad twanging,
the green of cos lettuce upright
about to bolt into opulent towers,
green as Grand Chartreuse in a clear
glass, green as wine bottles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blue as cornflowers, delphiniums,
bachelors\u2019 buttons. Blue as Roquefort,
blue as Saga. Blue as still water.
Blue as the eyes of a Siamese cat.
Blue as shadows on new snow, as a spring
azure sipping from a puddle on the blacktop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cobalt as the midnight sky
when day has gone without a trace
and we lie in each other\u2019s arms
eyes shut and fingers open
and all the colors of the world
pass through our bodies like strings of fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marge Piercy, \u201cColors passing through us\u201d from Colors Passing Through Us<\/em> (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a counterbalance, today’s music<\/a><\/em> is black and white…. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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