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’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.