Change
The Colour
When you
want to speak to the invisible
This
Coffee Time will do
but it
helps to change the colour.
At the
pay phone,
down at
heel, high on something
a man is
talking to a woman.
Connection
at a click
- disconnection
at another.
She hears
red.
The
colour of his skin
the rash
between his fingers
an
occupational hazard
of
washing with chemicals
in a
night-time-day-job.
Red
rush of
confusion
when he, says
her name.
The
telephone booth transforms
when he
imagines her as colour.
Yellow,
the colour
of her humane voice
on a
visible journey coming from
the other
end of the line.
Holding
the receiver
she waits
out pauses
listens
to his breathing.
The
listening saves him
from this
moment,
maybe his
life
and the
multi-colours sticking to his shoe -
chewing
gum and gravel spit out
while looking
for change.
He
keeps
trying hard
to say
what needs to be said
with
words he doesn’t have.
Distracted,
distressed by what’s on the ground,
street
traffic, and living this way.
Colour
arrives
just-in-time to fill the empty space
just-in-time to fill the empty space
and
stains the windows
with all
things human.
End
Notes:
The
church at Wallace Ave. and 243 Perth is another example of church architecture
with stain-glass windows disappearance or transformation. The billboard shows the grand, red
brick church transformed into a beige stucco condo.
Check out Dyan Marie's installation up through to the end of July. Image by Dyan Marie.
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