Chromacy
Asked for a form, got “color”. Replied, “Not a form!”. Asked someone else, got “villanelle”. So here is a villanelle about color.
A color between red and green.
What word should we use to call
Perhaps a color never seen?For decades it has always been
Red, green, blue — that’s all
No color between red and green.But what could one more receptor mean?
Would other colors start to pall
Against a color never seen?Now think of vision no less keen
but in one way destined to crawl
No difference between red and green.How does this fact change the scene,
with a biometaphoric wall
blocking a color never seen?Is it a plague we need to clean?
Or a standard we enforce—what gall!—
that a color between red and green
is no color, never seen.
From JoMoWriPoShoSto.