Let There be Color
by Lavinia Kumar
Cover Art by Lavinia Kumar
Table of Contents
In Due Time
Memory Fractured
Es gibt ein Loch
Glimmers and Lightness
Perhaps To Wake Again
The Sad of Eyes
Cerebrospinal Fluid Drips from Nose
Patience Wanting
Meals come with the Blues
Unending Urns
Up to the Minute
Dad Will See My Face
Body, Let There Be Color
Itinerant Traveler
As Dusk would Fade
We are Like the Dreamer who Dreams
and then Lives in the Dream
Mind Into Eye into Mind
Licensed Practical Nurse
She is Isis. She is Prithvi.
Evening Machine
Daydream of the Gallery
Opto Kinetic Reflex Drum
Tributes, Tributaries
Still the Nightmare at Home
Home Again
That Year
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Pastel Colors
Light blue surgeons, residents, nurses
and the green glow ob-gyns,
join the cafeteria lunch line
served by the dark blues,
the very ones who deliver meals
to each patient at least two hours
before visitors, staff eat.
Deep mauve or wine
measure urine jugs,
fill mugs with ice water,
wash faces and bodies,
spend time, talk, with patients.
Color coordination, identification,
with a soupçon of pecking order,
helps patient, family –
akin to bottles lined behind a bar
making it easy to pick out
the better brand
from the not-so –
the familiar and the not.
You don’t have to ask.
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