Those Warmer Colors

Those warmer colors—
brown— like coffee warmth or
firewood warmth or
the warmth of his eyes—
cups of coffee on white table cloth or
firewood against white brick or
someone asks him about the girl
he ****ed in Cuba.
Those warmer colors—
like cigar warmth or
whiskey warmth or
the warmth of his body—
the blanket twenty-feet away
that your ailing body can’t reach or
the broken thermo

Those Warmer Colors