The Blue of You...

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Blue:The modern English word blue comes from Middle English bleu or blewe, from the Old French bleu, a word of Germanic origin, related to the Old High German word blao.^[2] The clear sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. When sunlight passes through the atmosphere, the blue wavelengths are scattered more widely by the oxygen and nitrogen molecules, and more blue comes to our eyes. Rayleigh scattering also explains blue eyes; there is no blue pigment in blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called atmospheric perspective. Wikipedia

You stun in sweep of sanguine sky,

And splay in surge of sea

Mirrored like summer in blue eyes

Then caught inside of me

You wander where the fence-line curves

And dips toward the lane

Your bachelor-button vim and verve

Cups canticles of rain

You linger lonely in the dusk

Then light the wick of dawn

You bend the air when breeze is brusque

With dust of days long gone

You drench the waves that wash the graves

Of July-jilted dreams

And drape your denim-tenured gaze

Through yesterday's requiems

You clothe the sprawling afternoon

That always disappears

Into the fabric of your swoon

Like forget-me-not tears

© Janet Martin