Spring 2020

One: The farm was alllllllll green. Though the first green I see is myrtle. The grass and the trees outside followed by the green shutters. The green was so everywhere at the farm I almost didn’t notice it. “Verdant,” [redacted] and I would say. It was her birthday the other day, and I didn’t say anything. I’m sure I felt envy recently, though I may not have been “green” with it. Green curly kale today. Spinach. Micro Basil. “Greens” we say, like we never say “reds” or “yellows” but do say “blues.” I drew a green person – holding another person up. The base. The rock. The moss. Green is icky and it’s also safe. natural, easy, crazy, impossible. Everywhere and nowhere to be found when you need it.

Two: Green myrtle, green even-in-the-dark, farm green, first green, followed green, green ubiquity, omnipotent green – which is to say – omniverdance, verdant green – which is to say – green. Birthday green, green curly hair, green curly kale, green head lettuce, spinach + peas green – which is to say “greens“. Blues, blue-greens, green love, green butter, green Wallace Stevens, green head, green-to-green, friendship green, green growth, exponential green. Give a big green wink, a green look, a mean green. Green rock, green moss on it, green icky, green easy, green to be found, greener to escape. The green that makes you wish for impossibly vivid color and the green that makes you flinch away. Green envy (a classic). I may not have been green. I didn’t fall in love with green. Green sadness, green box we are in, green “innovation,” green deal, green big deal. Green fight to the death and medium green.