Blue Predominance by Vyarka Kozareva

The bird

With unprobed rock specks in its beak

Has blue eyes, blue horizons, blue thirst.

Its freedom’s calibrated on the tip

Of your pre-emptive arrow.

Today it’s not that propitious.

Cum grano salis,

The world’s blue-blooded part

Is too absorbed in mending its culverts.

The charts with lines in ink

Cannot detect the plumage thinning.

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Vyarka Kozareva resides in Bulgaria. Her work has appeared in Adelaide Literary Magazine, Ariel Chart, Poetry Pacific, Basset Hound Press, Bosphorus Review of Books, Mad Swirl, Ann Arbor Review, Fevers Of The Mind, Juste Milieu Lit, and is forthcoming in Abstract: Contemporary Expressions, Sampsonia Way Magazine, and Triggerfish.