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in the matrix of a prism is magic
of two kinds, the inestimable
and that which can be summed
—the inestimable cannot be summed
by definition
if I say red is passionate hot sexy
or if I say red’s the color of death
in unstopped bleeding
or that red’s blush reminds me of
one spectacular sunrise
the touch of you
there’s no calculation I can make
that sums red’s isness because,
as it comes by refraction
from the zero of white, it’s entered a zone
of the most inexplicable part of mind
which is always putting its private
spin on things
but
if I say red’s frequency is 4.3 times
ten to the fourteenth hertz I will have dropped
into the estimable spectrum of words
which may be so precisely split
there’s little room for imagination
which just makes me blue
Jim Culleny
4/30/19, 7:55 am
Blink 