True Colours

First published in True Colour (Redmond, Washington: City of Redmond, 2014) and in the “Japanese Forms” issue of Rattle (#47, Spring 2015), which editor Tim Green has said is the best-selling issue they’ve ever published. Also the featured poem, with an audio recording, on the Rattle website on 23 June 2015.

true colours—

the abstract painting

overpriced


an off-colour joke

from the psychiatrist


colouring

outside the lines

the kindergarten teacher


the realtor

talking too much

about local colour


hardly colourblind

the district attorney


technicolour sunset—

the photographer loads

another memory card