Another Blindness

The Waggoneer HRR Color Vision Test
"..Pseudoisochromatic plates
for detecting, classifying,
and estimating the degree
of defective colour vision.
Ideal for the military, train engineers,
and other professions that need
to test for all the color vision deficiencies...."


The quiet oddness -
is that this test is not considered essential
for poets, politicians, lovers...
and further - that I reverse this test,
superimposing various filters
between myself and the obvious,
seeking another truth. Choosing a palette
offering slightly more or less — hue of passion,
polarizing essence of accounting based logic.

This is not peeling — the onion of truth
is returning to a seed. This is unbaking,
unmaking, unstirring, unfolding.

Twenty years I co-owned a kitchen -
and bed. Now, sharing a kitchen
with someone I hadn't met two months ago,
of some surprising new courtesy,
I clean the kitchen counter
after every meal.