© 2006 D. B. Gallagher

Primary Color

Looking through the clear sheet of glass
cleaned without a single streak
out onto the mowed and manicured lawn,
I remember how Mrs. Gerber
my seventh-grade art teacher
told us that the colors
blue and green
both belong to the same family,
and after all these years
of rushing through books and places and people -
this morning
I think I may have finally understood why.

After My Appointment

White painted walls or
those painted in an
off-white which is
really a light shade of
gray are usually found in
an asylum or
at least one
of those houses in which
demented people are cared
for.

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