Other Humors

As many colors as the eye may see

In promissory arches on the lea

After a shower, when the sun is out

These the body has and out of doubt

I say name them: black, brown, red, yellow, blue,

(The pigments, hair, blood, lymph, the venous hue)

And others yet: green bile, transparencies

As limpid as the fountains of the eyes.

Colors are there, and in minute amounts

Nameless ones like still uncharted stars

Scatter and scintillate in the firmament

That is our body universe; by their deeds

May they be known, not by their spurious counts

And by the mystic way their force is blent.

GREY ROOFS