Experience Our Colors

Catamaran Literary Reader, Summer 2023

We didn’t budge as a cartoon Tinker Bell, delicate as a butterfly, splashed patches of different colors across the TV screen with her wand. Or at least it was nice to imagine they were different. On our black-and-white TV, we couldn’t really tell. After Tinker Bell left the screen, Disneyland appeared—the spinning teacups ride, the silver monorail, and Mickey Mouse waving to the camera. Walt Disney himself surveyed the scene like a god. Then those images fell away, the music swelled, and a castle emerged from the mist. And arching over the castle was a rainbow, each band of color simply a different shade of gray.