LETTERBOX #4

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Jennifer Cooper

joint pigment

I

  pear edge here
where tiny red bug
  wing & early plum
dare fragrance
clear water

vast droplet



II

naphthol crimson
carmine
rouge
the cardiac
arborist
the looking for
ornithologist
all your phthalo
against my
  green


III

french blue   cabbage purple   busted mustang yellow    under      tundra black
mongolia gold     steppe brown    prezwalski auburn   in    thin ice archeologist belt buckle green
penguin in the zoo pool aquamarine
 Indian summer crimson   on orange flame      frame California poppy orange or
Garibaldi damselfish in
 abalone silver pink shell La Jolla Cove blue
 mullet silver-grey bucket hat checkered red hued canoe
 clawed aratú munch Canguaretama verdant mangrove

boguainvillea fuchsia behind hélio oiticica meta black meta blue lilac on the mean waiter eggplant walls
of the gallery
plum wine plum
frota ochre thrown mashed potato beige on baby-carrot & pea-mash burnt umber
spilt cinnamon rust
mustard!
Whiskey!


VI

taints
assassin’s glove
 treasure trove
below sky above
raskolnikov
pigeon
hovers over corner
 bakery sign announcing
the price
yellow lettered
chalk on black-
board


VII

skirt tumbling
her chestnut
her ecru
over oak arm of chair

mangle moist
shrimp pink glistening
colors Dolores &
Odette Odette
 whips crumble from her
 cream puff tea lips

fingers strike
matches & flame
wicks of amber
stuck beeswax votives
bayberry sweet
 burn honey & fruit


VIII

black & white

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