What is your favorite color? This is a hard question. Somedays it’s the cyan blue of the sky; others it’s the purple center of a gladiola. Yellow is my favorite color of summer, but I don’t often wear yellow because years ago I had my “colors done” and yellow makes me look pale. I recently asked a friend what her favorite bird was. She first said dunlins for their murmurations, then she said, “house finch.” And finally, after some thought, she texted a photo of Anna’s hummingbird. Do you have a favorite bird?
Today for this photo, think about your favorite color of the moment, and write a Color is poem.
On my back deck I have two red flowers blooming. They seem to be heat resistant. I used the portrait mode on my iPhone to take these photos.
Red is hot
waving in the summer breeze
like a warning flag
to stay inside
and drink iced tea.Red is June’s skin
Margaret Simon, draft
so rosy it’s almost purple
as she crawls across the floor
looking back
to smile at Pépère.
Reflections on the Teche 