SHADES OF GREEN

 

‘My garden must have
colour at all times,
it must be designed
by a professional!’, she said
‘ with flowers in bloom
each month of the year’.

 

I reply that green
is also a colour,
and that from my window
I can see the sombre green
of a lemon-scented gum,
the darker hue of the she-oak
tormented by the June wind,
the emerald of pasture
after the opening rains,
and the lime of an elm
with the lighter touch
of bottlebrush leaves
beneath and against
a vivid green horse rug.

 

I add that from the window
I can sometimes detect envy.

© This work is copyright, 2004: Ray Stuart