972

Last night I stitched a corner of a room with 3722,
a deep apricot taupe,
and with 3328, a shade that is brighter and peachier,
and now, tonight, for a stairwell bordering this juicy room, I put in 972.

Do you know 972?

This chrome is a yellow you could walk to China on,
a bounty for which you could stamp your foot right through the floor
when the princess, who`s been spinning strands of 972,
inquires,
"You like this color Rumpelstiltskin?"

I like this color, Princess.

For this majestic gold I will keep my temper.
Stay here. Say you win.
Be your servant, be your slave,
just to keep in touch with all this egg-yolk yellow,
just to keep my hands on
all this glory stuff.

~ Stephen Beal