I decided to have a look at the 1966 Spring Edition of Quarto and stumbled upon a lovely short poem -The Blue Beret, by David Lukashok, which left me with a sense of loveliness. The strength of his use of color throughout the poem was impressive, and interesting that he chose to use two colors that were at opposite ends of the spectrum. The first time I read it I was left with an ineffable sense of beauty and simplicity, pure and basic, and intensely visual. I decided to try my hand at it and wrote a pastiche of it, but changed the age and sex of the subject in addition to changing the colors Lukashok used. Maybe the different colors might invoke a different feeling to the poem as a whole, I don’t know, but I hope you’ll let me know how differently you felt after reading Lukashok’s original**and after

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