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ARTISTS' COLORS, EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR

An artist who walks

to the courthouse

for the trial of a friend

accused of assault,

imagines he'd use a bit

of cadmium red,

to paint florettes

of emerging maple buds,

so striking on this dreary April day

of Paines gray sky,

ochre horizon.

What color, he wonders,

would he use for the heart

of that man in the green coat

who rests against the tree

as if waiting for his lover,

or the heart of that old woman

following her husband's casket

in the passing procession,

or the heart of his friend who says

he was only defending himself, and now waits anxiously

for others decide his fate?

He wonders

if such colors exist.