Upcoming Exhibit: "The Red that Colored the World" (Bower's 11/1/15)

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RED. [v3]

I.
The Matador.
The flag extends in arm outstretched, for sake of bold.
His eye drops along its frame.  The cloth, a sign,
Draped on, in spite of sense, unfurled; it's lack of fold
An offense to the braying monster beyond.

II.
The Bar.
They, shadowed about the pate of varnished wood, says
Little.  Thoughtful quiet, in the reflective glow
are words enough.  For the undulating buzz

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Contemplation is found in the gloss of spilled drink.

III.
The Revolutionary.
On her lips the warring colour, the warning one,
Revolt declared by those fierce eyes: ready, wet.
The masses in struggle, civil thoughts undone,
Smoke rose, the fire lit, as she moves to the fore.

IV.
The Couplet.
Alternating tones, its force as the same,

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Color of wanting, and, by degree, claim.
~ JE, 9 Songs, 9 Stories, 9 Poems

THE EXHIBIT: "The Red that Colored the World" coming to Bower's Museum 11/1/15, displays the power behind the color red and how the American Cochineal creates this dye (see below).  A deeper dive of the exhibit is available at WSJ.

"I always saw, I always said If I were grown and free,
I'd have a gown of reddest red As fine as you could see,..
And he would be a gallant one, With stars behind his eyes,
And hair like metal in the sun, And lips too warm for lies.
I always saw us, gay and good, High honored in the town.
Now I am grown to womanhood....I have the silly gown." ~ Dorothy Parker, The Red Dress