blue can be this by Pearl Button
blue can be this: the indigo gleam of bodies
bounding ecstatically inside the skin of the world.
it needn't be the blue of a lung's starvation;
a held breath can also be the last moment
before an ecstatic break.
the blue of longing can be wide, a window
into the golden furnace of somatic alchemy.
all that needs remembering: blue is just a colour;
longing, just a feeling.
Pearl Button lives in the Salishan Territories of western North America. She is published or forthcoming in a variety of journals including The Literary Cauldron, Posit, SurVision Magazine, Skink Beat Review, Impspired and Peculiar Mormyrid.