WINTER BLUES

Photo by S. Auberle

BLUE IS A FUGITIVE COLOR

It is the color of ambiguous depth,

of the heavens and of the abyss at once…

               ~  Alexander Theroux

do you remember that night

I said I would have to leave?

under a blue moon

in Clem & Ursie's Bar

you asked would I walk toward

something      or away

           

            and I said a horizon

is what I need 

a road rising to meet me...    

Dante's 9th Circle of Hell isn't fire

but ice     

           

            yet blue light

has the energy to escape ice

and remain visible

too often invisible to you 
I became     

           

                        blue

is a fugitive color  

fades quicker than any other