Gray 1/17/12

Shades of gray
are all I've seen today
and I must say
there are many shades of gray:

• puff of smoke wispy clouds drifting by
• wet dryer lint clouds hanging heavy on the skyline
• silky dove gray clouds misting
• purplish gray of a pigeon's back clouds drizzling
• milky gray of cataracts floating between the clouds
• silvery fish-scale gray of diffuse light falling flat on the ocean
• murky gravy gray of Mother Ocean ripping and sucking sand
• gray-beige of cold sand without the warmth of sunlight

I am hungry for color --
tropical rainbows and
honey gold light
pooling on the ocean and
the orange explosion
of sunrise.
Go away gray.