-a poem-writer's understanding of primary colors

and the fundamental structure of the couplet-

the preschool child confronting its first

set of crayons will try to eat them.

red was a primary choice and blue

to smear the trees and animals.

as with the Fauves, the child's a wild beast,

its hyperactive attraction

to the uncommon placement of color

has a tendency to breach the lines of logic.

ah! the recurring

birth of the open form!

but the question remains:

is this a couplet?