Yes, endorsing Helen on Audrey's pleasing, musical reflection on colour with
emotional implications...Louis Armstrong and 'What did I do to be so black
and blue' came to mind, with its reverberations in Ralph Ellison's
masterpiece, Invisible Man...not that skin colour implying race seems to be
at all hinted at it here...
Max Richards at Cooee in Melbourne
on 11/5/03 9:02 PM, Helen Hagemann at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> something like "Black and blue". They say that
> titles can be found inside the poem and to my mind there is a consciousness
> of abuse here.
> Cheers
> Helen Hagemann
>
>
>>
>> Yes, You Heard Me Right
>>
>> Blue used to be my favorite color. Not
>> the blue of eyes or skies, not powder
>>
>> or peacock. Neither do I mean patrician
>> or Prussian,cobalt or lazuline. I’m thinking
>>
>> of something with more gray, Payne’s
>> with the feel of cold slate, dull steel,
>>
>> the hue of weight and worry. Now
>> that blue is the color of bruises. What
>>
>> do I favor nowadays? Black.
>> Most definitely black.
>>
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