As black as an all season
blackbird on the first snow ....
As black as the lettering on a
yellow school bus ....
As blue as Caribbean
water and Caribbean sky almost all the time ....
As blue as coolness, calmness,
peace and tranquillity ...
As blue as the Los Angeles
Dodgers lettering on their home white uniforms ....
As blue as the top of a Bic Pen
-- 10 for 89 cents in a pre-school August special ....
As brown as cocoa or coffee to
start the day ....
As brown as Hershey kisses after
taking off the silver wrapper ....
As brown as the bottom of the Grand Canyon in the early morning light ....
As brown as Mother Earth ready
for the Spring seeding ....
As dark brown as Coca Cola
bubbling in a tall glass with plenty of ice on a hot summer day ....
As gray as the sky on the first
day of winter ....
As orange-red as an October sun
through the autumn leaves ....
As green as pine trees all year
long ....
As green as late spring, all
summer and early September ....
As green as Vermont
or Ireland or Oregon or northern Brazil during the rainy season ....
As yellow-green as light green
grapes ....
As light blue as the lettering on
a baby boy’s birthday cake ....
As orange as an orange ....
As orange as a crossing guard’s
vest ....
As purple as Ash Wednesday
vestments ....
As purple as solemnity,
seriousness, pausing ....
As light red as the inside of a
watermelon on a hot summer day ....
As red as the delicacy, richness,
fragility, of a rose ....
As red as fire, passion, love,
excitement, freedom ....
As red as the red of a STOP sign
....
As rust-red as Arizona
earth and Utah
rock most of the year ....
As almost lobster-red as a
sunburned back on a summer beach ....
As speckled red as a just-boiled
lobster ....
As sudden-red as a person’s face
caught gossiping about someone and seeing them walk into the room ....
As tan as sand, old army
uniforms, paper in a diary from long ago ...
As white as a cloth napkin in an
Italian restaurant, -- but before the spaghetti ....
As white as new, just before, not
yet, almost now ....
As yellow as a banana ....
As yellow as a lemon ....
As yellow as a school bus ....
As yellow as mustard on a hot dog
in a ball park on a bright summer day ....
© Andrew Costello - Reflections, 1999
