ALL SIGNS BECOME APPARENT *

unless they don’t. Under the Live Oaks at Hilton Head, red

is a predominant colour. Red-striped awnings, a red accented

lighthouse, red sun umbrellas, and of course, the rows of red

rocking chairs. Red – the colour of passion, love, anger – the

colour waved before bulls to incite them to charge the matador.

Rocking chair red seems somewhat oxymoronic, I think, as

I sit down for a rest.

*From E.B.’s poem To a Future Delinquent from the book

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