Colour Strips
By Pam Brown
Published 1 January 2021
destination
half a niche
at botany bay,
I'm thinking
as I look at
you talk to me
should I put
my glasses on,
you're blurry.
container cranes
huge horizon
rusty red orange
cadmium yellow
but dirtier,
younger, like
cobalt yellow.
scrutinize
colour strips,
lead-tin yellow
far gantry
beyond
a woad blue bay.
feeling
shipped -
dump habits,
attachments,
a clear bell
from the hill,
a critical distance
from monuments,
dun brick niches
stacked
with ash