"What is Purple?" by Mary O'Neill
What Is Purple?
Time is purple
Just before night
When most people
Turn on the light--
But if you don't it's
A beautiful sight.
Asters are purple,
There's purple ink.
Purple's more popular
Than you think...
It's sort of a great
Grandmother to pink.
There are purple shadows
And purple veils,
Some ladies purple
Their fingernails.
(from Poets Illustrated FB group, posted by Davidson Jones)
Illustration by Leonard Weisgard for,
"What Is Purple?" from, "Hailstones and halibut bones" by Mary O'Neill
(Look, acelightning--have you ever seen this one before? ;))