Deborah Bogen’s volumes of poetry include Speak Now This Charm, Jacar Press, In Case of Sudden Free Fall, Landscape with Silos, Let Me Open You a Swan, and Living by the Children’s Cemetery. She lives in Pittsburgh where she balances the poet’s life with grassroots political responsibility, playing music and growing a few things in the garden. You can get Speak Now This Charm at http://jacarpress.com/speak-now-this-charm/
Colors
Colors Blood-red was all the rage that year — in the fashion magazines and the furniture showrooms. So, now we had the new loveseat, my mother’s find — the fabric called blood-red, but it looked older and dried up. Something closer to rust. The walls of my room were a perfect sky blue and my …