Color & Memory

Teal soaked memories

in blazons of atrophying color,

a mix of warmth and cold

find concord in childhood,

a prominence of recollection

in the smallest of things.

The haze of multicolored light caught

in the corner glare of an old TV set,

the consistent dull institutional

walls of an early 2000’s preschool

matches the boring beiges

of police stations, hospitals and office buildings.

Teal however still paints

the whole of my memory,

comfortable but not consistent,

dull and sometimes radiant.

Like salty sea water,

and the swirls of a marble bowling ball,

the interchange of varying elements

both emotional and physical,

represent themselves

in the contradiction of teal’s coruscation.

Shades and shadows cast by the colored refraction,

diffuse and encapsulate

the memories lost to time,

quantifiable by the emotions in which

they come to represent

in the recesses of our retention.

The subconscious connectivity

to the immutable expressions

and varying wavelengths of visible light,

are to project themselves

the saturated images of our existence.

Manifesting both through the record

of our external senses and the lofty mental

and emotion projections

that crystallize periods of time

in our perceived eternity.

Adam Hans