2024

"Kevin considers the word ‘terracotta.’ Matches it to the squash-hued clay he’d watched Colby abuse for the credits he needed to pass his art elective."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeSeptember 8, 2017Notes on Color

263

"She wears a lavender, polyester tank, and she is glowing."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeAugust 18, 2017Notes on Color

8160

"But I am not with him, and he is not with me."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeAugust 11, 2017Notes on Color

10-15

"The space between the house and the barn, between his two respective lives, is lined with oaks and acorns."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeJuly 21, 2017Notes on Color

419

"He'd already gone down the black hole; by graduating into the world, he'd graduated away from himself."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeJuly 7, 2017Notes on Color

7621

"The cranes and peonies begin to move in his plane of vision. To clash into each other, along the box’s red Washington apple skin.

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeJune 23, 2017Notes on Color

466

"You take artifacts from each place you visit."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeJune 9, 2017Notes on Color

1205

"I am still . . . predisposed to prefer Belle to Cinderella, Katharine Hepburn to Grace Kelly."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeMay 26, 2017Notes on Color

187

"It was always somewhat for myself, before I was me . . . . Always somewhat to please that cross-armed child in red."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeMay 12, 2017Notes on Color

1

"So, here I am, a bundle of ironies, a product of privilege and yet its opponent.

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeApril 21, 2017Notes on Color

129

"The creamsicle color of my youth, however, has run off into warped, postmodern poolings I would not have recognized from the porch where I licked the dessert from eight-year-old knuckles."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeApril 14, 2017Notes on Color

912

"If there is a way to lose and do it with grace, I don’t know it."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeApril 7, 2017Notes on Color

2279

"The color her name carries is one which originated in forests, has been usurped by J-Crew field jackets, and is found folded into Greek dolmas."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeMarch 24, 2017Notes on Color

102

"When the banana flowers arrived they looked like that, too, solitary in their parakeet-hued overabundance, lonely like my father."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeMarch 17, 2017Notes on Color

714

"I stoop over a plate of average pancakes as means of protection."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeMarch 10, 2017Notes on Color

2347

"I wanted souvenirs of a homeland I always rejected, but in the place of shell-case boxes or shot glasses painted with the red bean paste and hunter green hues of redwoods, I’ll have lessons to share."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeFebruary 24, 2017Notes on Color

2736

"Blue means blueberries and the ceiling at Grand Central."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeFebruary 10, 2017Notes on Color

205

"I dreamt in nothing but pink."

NOTES ON COLORAlexandra A. ReineckeFebruary 3, 2017Notes on Color

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