Primer

       'Let us examine green.  Let us go together'
                                                    Peter Gizzi

1. now we have begun
    huddled like rum runners
    to intuit blue

2. since easter this cough
    like a scant yellow dog
    reproaches me

3. quizzical and brash she
    stalls over the dark fleece
    where redly she compiles me

4. flunking and coughing
    over the vivid caul of an orange
    I grow ashamed

5. doggedly I forgive
    green its brinksmanship
    I begin to mouth its parables