AMAZON ORANGE

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On the right I’d call it
- Pumpkin Orange.
The hues change in the middle
they soften slightly
so it’s more of a
Mango Tango there 

It looks radiant.
I don’t mean that
-       in the colloquial way.
I can feel the warmth on my face
and I wish I could crawl into
the Tangerine Orange
that occupies the middle left
just off centre,
it looks tepid there.  

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No, I changed my mind,
I am the line of Chrome Yellow
cutting across,
I prevent the Amber Orange
from ever meeting the
Sapphire boarded box
that imprisons the blue -
or is it Lilac?
Though it’s quite possibly Grey.

It looks like Carrot Orange now
flecked with Harvest Gold.
For a moment I thought
there  might have been some Coral too,
but I realise that was a mistake -
the Firebrick Red had
penetrated my peripheral
cross contaminating my vision.  

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I wondered how Rothko
had left it untitled,
when it obviously looked
like Princeton Orange 2.
So in my head I named it
‘Amazon Orange’.