The Colors of Gray

Paris was built gray, though in summer, the trees and the umbrellas upload color. The architecture spills over into gay shades of silver and pewter. Edinburgh is gray, gray are the plastic rainhats. Damp kilts gamely fly a little color. The stonework is granite gained, and in late arriving Spring color creeps up the hilly streets. Shanghai flakes away in gray a lacquered gray that gilts the Huangpu river. The skyscrapers are creamy and blush in the sunlight. The girls are silk flowers in gray designer Nike’s. Nowadays, those who world-travel no more, and those stuck in their own mud, spin a grey alchemy into colorful words which they then send to places worth writing to.