Ochre | and the teeth were very

white | She grew natural | mutations

white of ash | For what was minor, the mildest | fluctuation

of reds according to the angle of view | Sheared or

slashed | colorfast | She couldn’t pass a mirror without

reflection | the purple recalling a distant vermillion, a circle

(a worm, diminutive) requires twice as much gray | a powder washed

green can sting | an ink leaked through, an inferior blue | Remember:

the beautiful scales | the warp

is one memory and the weft contrasts the black |