21 March marks 
World Poetry Day &
International Color Day

The Shaker Sisters at Harvard MA recorded coloring (they wrote collouring) in their Journal.  Coloring meant dyeing. Dyeing is making color. Dyeing is possibility. 

This poem uses text from their Journal and will be part of an upcoming exhibition, ‘anything but drab’ at Fruitlands opening in May.

we collour
 
 
we color scarlet on stormy days
 
we color indigo when we are indefatigable
 
we color butternut   roses blooming abundantly
 
we color prusy blue pick some pease
 
we color logwood    smelling lilacs
 
we color fancy blue to match azure skies
 
we color slate silk with sicily sumac to match slanted rain
 
we color blue spirits for drab woolens
 
we color cochineal pink roses
 
we color purple standard
 
we color considerable