Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

Color after all what is it but radiation
      An invention of the human mind
energy in a very narrow range
      The "wine-dark" sea
of the electromagnetic spectrum
      Picasso's Blues
wavelengths 0.4 to 0.7 millionths of a meter
      "...that alien, point-blank, green and actual Guatemala"
tickling optic nerves
      reactor pool's ghostly blue (Dancing with Cherenkov?)
actuating in the cerebral cortex, right hemisphere
      "the Metro sky glowed Goldwyn-Mayer
brain's color registers
      "as we rode away
Red -- Green-- Blue-- RGB
      in her cocoa-colored Chevrolet"

The world glowers dark without an eye
      Waits for the great red love.

.......................................................................... Israel Lewis

Quoted lines are from Wallace Stevens "Arrival at the Waldorf" and my poem "Araby"


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