redder

Once, I asked you, “Is scarlet the same as red?”

Hands across your chest, you said, 
“Scarlet is more red than red.”

I thought, “Is it possible
to be redder than red?”

Then, I remembered
O’Hara’s bow-hot lips,
The vivid A
On Hester’s breast;

Johansson’s erotic hips.

tk/April 2012

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