|Poem| Primary Colors

 

Primary Colors

-- To a Woman Named "Zulma" painted by Matisse (1950)

 

Woman covering her whole body in blue The pink, pink

desktop that she is leaning against Three or four

primary colors escape from the canvas ferociously, ferociously

  

Flesh color, chicken color fills the green, green

wall tightly with anticipation, anticipation

 

Note on the Muse:

This Matisse painting is pretty strangely soft

The woman’s body is like a highway, soaring into the sky

 

© March 2026.12.29