Poetry. Women's Studies. California Interest. 2019 Lambda Literary Award finalist for Transgender Poetry. At the close of the frontier, during a queer elsewhen, IF THE COLOR IS FUGITIVE asks for witness to vagrants searching for landmarks amidst rubble. Peppered with invented idioms and slant colloquialisms, these poems preserve an archive of survival that reads like a folklorist translating from local dialect to earnest exhortation: how to escape with nothing but your name.