COLOURING THE WORLD.

Auntie Peggy
gave us
the world

we held it
tentatively
between finger and thumb

hardly able
to believe
what we could see

there we were( & she )
trapped in the first ever
colour photo we

had ever seen
and so we saw
that grass was green

as were
Uncle Michael's
corduroys

we looked
and looked
again to confirm

that the photo
had got it
exactly right

somehow that world
was lost by us
and we could only see it

through
the eyes of
Auntie Peggy's photos

where everything remains just so
and redder and bluer and greener
than anyone could ever know