Blue Is The Bluest Joy

one blue crayon for the rain

for the grape stain on a pale tablecoth

one blue crayon-

only one-

for the sapphire midnight sun

for the belated wish for the

plum-deep chiaroscuro the unseen span

over the water lilies

I may keep

holding on to one blue crayon

to a house in a twilight town

to the stub of no renown

joyously blue

mary angela douglas 6 august 2013