For the millions who have never heard of grade-school themes about rainbows and palettes.
Spring’s Palettes
April rainbows are spring’s palettes
for painting over winter’s whiteness
with yellow, orange, green and violet,
indigo, red and blue, all drawing
bees and hummingbirds to sip
the wildest liquors (never brewed!),
those nectars deep in blooming flowers.
But our Artist reviews details
(
pentimenti?), each season alters:
chiaroscuro, colors warm
to hot, those cool to cold, the strong
to weak and pale—then, unseen prism
tints, the essence of life’s light,
are every spring’s immortal palette.