Murky 1
there is something murky / about the political life in Turkey (CPE, 478)
Pale 2
the town hall cupola, still breast-feeding / its pale, cloud-swaddled Lux (CPE, 373; SF, 35)
it plucks from your pale cheeks the blooming roses (CPE, 475)
Palm 1
Across the ocean and into the palm tree (Faith Wigzell’s archive)
Pearl 1
As it is, you are a pearl (Box 65:1606)
Plain 1
Now you become a part / of the inanimate, plain / terra of disregard / of the common pain (CPE, 149; PofS, 137)
Platinum 1
by the view of the palm-tree tops splayed against the platinum sky like some Chinese characters (CPE, 245–246; SF, 4)
Red 6
Beyond this wall throbs a local flag / against whose yellow, red, and black / Compass and Hammer proclaim the true (CPE, 236; TU, 28)
Brush to the red-brick dentures (CPE, 309; TU, 96)
give you my red lipstick, and puff your nose (CPE, 451; SF, 126)
(Not all that’s written on walls is red? (CPE, 468)
Let them (waves) be dark, red, chestnut, blond (CPE, 479)
with red meat courting knives (CPE, 488)
Rose 1
it plucks from your pale cheeks the blooming roses (CPE, 475)
Rust 1
And a fish that prophetically shines with rust / will splash in a pond (CPE, 266)
Scarlet 1
From a stubborn brow / something scarlet drops / on the Christmas snow (CPE, 271)
Snow 1
He suffered on ulcer and snow (Box 193:2.4246)
Tricolor 1
Under what cloud’s pallor / now throbs the tricolor / of your future, your past / and your present, swaying the mast (CPE, 257–258; TU, 47)
White 17
White foam kneels and breaks / on the altar (CPE, 147; PofS, 135)
the skin gains its distance, lordly / white (CPE, 239; TU, 30)
a statue stands white like a blight of winter (CPE, 310)
on the oil tablecloth at Sparky’s / Cafe, with half & half for whites, / against your specter at noon (CPE, 373; SF, 35)
eyes stained with clouds’ / white ins and outs (CPE, 417; SF, 89)
The snow lent her whiteness, / a pine was a witness (CPE, 417; SF, 89)
Let’s have a monument, since my stallion, / white as a hyacinth (CPE, 440; SF, 114)
A thought-like white cloud, in search of mankind (CPE, 463)
The White Brothers (CPE, 471)
The nuance of the White Slave Trade (CPE, 472)
Germans to me are extremely white (CPE, 473)
They are white in broad daylight and, whats more, at night (CPE, 473)
Captain Robert Peary / reaches the North Pole, and thus subscribes / virginal white to the Star and Stripes (CPE, 478)
but only soil white gloves (CPE, 483)
the index finger / of the assassin! ah, white puffs in the blue acrylic!.. (CPE, 484)
the white’s worth seeing / against the black (Box 56:1066)
for the earth’s an apple / with a permanent black-and-white / taste whichever side you bite (Box 62:1371; Box 66:1679)
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