The story of gray and of lavender is a product of their time together, of arcing heights, yellows arranged, the lines of ocean scold, and a bye-going sliver, and they tell it, this story and their time, to no one unwilling to hold its shine
Scudellari's poem treats two colors, gray and lavender, as if they were characters with a shared history. Their "story" comes from the time they spent together, and the poem fills that time with fragments of imagery: high arcs, arranged yellows, the "lines of ocean scold," and a thin sliver of…
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