When Your Knowledge Of Obscure Colors Is Bigger Than Your… Other Assets

Her hair was coquelicot.

Her eyes were smaragdine.

Now my heart is glaucous

And not incarnadine

For a man of caput mortuum skin

Made her glow like elephant’s breath

And I smolder like exuberance

And wish for sudden death.

For those so inclined: https://www.color-meanings.com/worst-named-colors/