“Colour and light have an important relationship in the act of seeing…colours multiply among themselves, but, like the elements, there are only four true colours from which other species of colour are born. There is red, the colour of fire; blue, of air; green, of...

A Black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels, I will someday speak of your unseen births: A, black corset bristling with glittering flies That buzz around cruel smells, Gulfs of shadow; E, innocent vapours and tents, Lances of proud glaciers, white kings, frissons of an inflorescence; I, crimsons,...