2005 Caveat Lector Poetry Contest: First Place Sandra Beasley [Total Pages: 3] Beasley Page 1 How to Steal the Color Blue (1973) 1. Steal blue from the breath of berries. 2. Match eye shadow to denim, hold hair back with plastic combs. 3. Set the sky in a dishpan, soak it in bleach until even flies abandon that whitening space, even ravens and crows roll their eyes from green to yellow and take refuge along squash vines closer to the safe earth, admonishing toads. Drink the runoff. Smoke. Repeat daily.