Morado is a color I learned <br /> <br />in Barcelona and the phrase: <br /> <br />pasarlas moradas: <br /> <br />to have a bad time of it. <br /> <br /> <br />A bandolero across <br /> <br />your girlish chest, <br /> <br />your silhouette posed <br /> <br />against the slowing sky, <br /> <br />dead from a sniper bullet <br /> <br />shot at great distance; <br /> <br />rough as a garden weed <br /> <br />Spanish to the touch.<br /><br />Bernard Henrie<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sniper-in-the-spanish-civil-war/
