Chromatic refers to color or weather
or intimacy of the air between
two people that surrounds conversation
or lack thereof. Within light: color,
revelation of pigment so we see
Eucalyptus, Monterey Cypress, Wren.
As the sun rolls closer to our horizon,
we distinguish small gradations of color
like the way the center of a feather
is darker than the outside boundary.
The news thumps against stairs, and rain intensifies
morning. Under umbrellas men and women
hurry to the station, a few spots of florals.
When I switch on the light, you turn over, sigh.