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Contests : Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2007 : Commended
SUSPENDED
February 8, 2007
It was blue today
when I left the grocery store.
My blue car was blueberry.
Green cars were teal.
Red cars were purple.
Everything white was a
watery milk-blue.
I stood in a painting.
A layer of steel slicked the street.
The underside of each leaf
on every tree was a shade of blue.
Even tree trunks were tinged with it.
A stormy sky hid the day's orb
behind billowing slate.
And the Air
was so thick with blue
I was sure I could pillow myself in it,
sleep a dreamless, blue sleep.
On the backs of my hands spidered
more blue veins than ever before.
I looked over at a lady walking
to her car. She was searching
for the keys in her bag.
She was blue.
So was her bag.
I knew it wouldn't last, this color,
so I wanted to say, "Excuse me,
have you noticed it's blue right now?"
But I didn't.
Oh my darlings, in those few,
awed moments, like twilight
before terrible exactness
pricks through the night sky,
all longing, all sadness,
every single thing that is
breaking my heart,
dissolved in blue.
This poem won a Commended award in the 2007 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest sponsored by Tom Howard Books. Author Elizabeth Pessl-Rossi received a $50 award. Winning Writers assists this contest. Copyright is reserved to the author.
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