The broad brush is poisonous
Still you paint painful pictures
Red, yellow, brown, white
Forgetting the sweet minutia
Unlearning the shades and variations
The beauty in our treasured tints
I look closer at your simple statements
Even in your wheel of colors
I can see the potential
Life is sunburnt, light
Bache, pink, jaundiced,
Dark and lightly tanned
Plain or with flocks of freckles