blue

10/16/05

        it took me almost a month three weeks
        before I saw this peculiar blue light quite weak
        that hovers near my fingers as I type

(off to the left)

        and it reminded me of
        snowflakes aloft under streetlights
        and kitten-tracks
                marching
                        down
                                the sidewalk
        smoothed flat my four-year-old snow boots –
        how seductive the new dark evening smelled!
        and oh how the sound it made played in my ears
        like nothing

        like the faint glow of muted sky
        that I would have missed
        if things weren’t so dark ‘round here

these days