In these poems, G. E. Murray blends the colors of the soul with those of the world it brushes up against, exploring the ways in which art, both as possession and possessor, informs perception. Viewing his subjects sometimes from airplane altitude, sometimes from the intimacy of a shared restaurant table, Murray crafts true stories about color, narratives of dislocation and belonging that invite readers to question their own relationship to art. Included in this volume is a long sequential poem titled The Seconds, which Murray composed across the second days of thirteen months. The rhythms of...