Hue and Cry

by Dolores Hayden

hue e cri, outcry in pursuit of a criminal

 

white trash
redneck
yellow belly
green-ass
blue collar
black hat

black operator
white wrapper
blue line
red-handed
green goods
yellow flag

yellow dog
blacklist
greenwash
whitewash
redline
blue-sky

blue meanie
yellow peril
red menace
blackbird
whitebread
greenfly

green around the gills
bluesy
white as a sheet
yellow
black mood
red-ass

Red Hot
Green Hornet
Black Molly
Bluebird
Yellow Sunshine
White Lightning

redblooded, sing the blues,
eat the green weenie, yellow heart,
here’s your black and white mug shot

 

Dolores Hayden

DOLORES HAYDEN’s books on the American landscape include Building Suburbia and The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Her poems about places have appeared in many journals and anthologies including The Yale Review, Southwest Review, Raritan, and Best American Poetry 2009. She has published two poetry collections, American Yard (2004) and Nymph, Dun, and Spinner (2010) and received poetry awards from the Poetry Society of America, the New England Poetry Club, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Djerassi Foundation. She teaches at Yale.

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