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Planetary Blue

21/7/2024

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Picture
You’re wearing planetary blue
today, your gaze turned inward
to regard your self-geology.
 
Yet something from the Atlantic
intrudes on your compact solitude,
something evolved in a tidepool
 
distinct from tidepools you plumbed
in your childhood by the Pacific.
Planetary blue is the color
 
migrating songbirds follow
by day, their wingbeat quickened
through thickets of radio waves
 
broadcast just to confound them.
You feel those signals mingle
with respiration and heartbeat
 
to birth you a bright new being
that can live for only a moment.
Your clothing drapes to resolve
 
the gap between you and this other,
this blue-winged creature no one
believes will successfully fly.
William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has taught at several colleges and universities. His most recent book of poetry is Cloud Mountain (2024).  His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in various journals.

Image: Pawel Czerwinski / Unsplash


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