Friends, in Color

Friends acquire color

from each other. Affection

generously renders it –

extends the flow of it

from where their minds are

meeting – circumambulating

all the upper spaces:

often with a predilection

for bright red, which

threads in calligraphic line

around the shoulders, skull

and spine before it radiates

away as if to spin its gladness

out to duller, paler faces.

Eventually color will imbue

the whole – travel through

the body to the core

that color is the proof of: soul.

That accounts for most

of all the glow in me and you.

Soul is made of hue.

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