Brown, of course, is sadness, and gray is indecisiveness; 
red is the color of anxiety and black is the color 
of confidence and yellow is the color 
that wakes us up in the morning--blue
is the color of the oceans and 
it is over our heads--purple is the color 
of everlasting harmony, 
but you knew that, didn't you?

Stars settle on the hulls
of our beached canoes,
waiting for morning
to wash them all
back into the lake.