Have you ever heard the cool green sound of a water trickle? Felt the velvet-soft grayness of a pussy willow? Sen the orange flash of a fiery fox? With a compelling sense of rhythm and images that are clear and fresh, Mary O'Neill explores the spectrum in twelve poems about different colors, from the show-off shout of red to the blueness of wind over water to the quiet white of a pair of whispers talking.
