Chelsea Jennings – Sept 9, Iyengar II & I

And now, ensorcelled!

THE INVENTION OF BLUE

Before blue blindness

fell at dusk

Clouds composed the sky

Before blue sun never

entered water

Distance fit into a window

.

Blue came last as it was

an ending

A pose night took until

the gold was gone

.

Then on the ocean's grey waves

came ultramarine

Blue had been a species of darkness

Now applied as pure pigment

it tore a hole in the world

.

Blue had existed in dreams of course

This color beside which life

appears ashen

.

Blue that shines in the shadows

Brightens the milk

Makes room

for the lead-white daylight to fill