The Blues
Suzanne Morris
June 20, 2022
Blue is the color of
periwinkles
on the glass shade of
my favorite lamp
the color of
the young girl’s dress
in the painting
above my desk
blue, the color of
Galveston shutters
in the painting
beside my bed
and the color
most vividly brought to life
with my cataracts
finally shed.
Blue was the color
before your eyes
when you came near
a stroke last night
the color of the shirt
you wore when you
rushed through my door
in fright.
Blue is the color
of my world today
seeing clearly how frail,
this life.
Suzanne Morris is a novelist and a poet. Her poems are included in various anthologies, including No Season for Silence (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2020) and Gone, but Not Forgotten (Stone Poetry Journal, 2022). Examples have also appeared in The Texas Poetry Assignment and The New Verse News.
