A Day Gray February
Dark thought on a gray day —
gray in every gradation:
18% gray card gray
the ideal photographic gray
of wet city streets
& shards of east river gray
the cold of gainsboro
gray rain
dead-eye gray
pale ash gray —
the fortune teller cried last night
& auguries of apocalypse
revealed themselves
in halftone grayscale.
“Write for yourself and yourself alone. Don’t try to please anyone else, and don’t be afraid of anyone.”
— Sallie Tisdale