Blue
by Thomas
Zimmerman
Your mother’s
favorite color.
Joni’s greatest
record.
Sky
and sky
reflected in the
water.
Unoxygenated blood.
A lonesomeness,
an inwardness,
a bruise,
sweet ache,
and easy riffing:
blue ribbon
blue pencil
blue collar
blue moon
the boys in blue
out of the blue
blue in the face
the wild blue yonder
true blue
blue blazes
Bluebeard
blue-haired lady
Kind of Blue
Midnight Blue
Blue Train
Two Steps from the
Blues
blue note
blue spruce
blue movie
beaten black and blue
The skim-milk hue
of white folks’ legs
in summer.
“Too full o’ th’
milk
of human kindness.”
Heaven.
And the stars that
fleck
your one woke eye.
Thomas Zimmerman
(he/him) teaches English, directs the Writing Center, and edits The Big
Windows Review https://thebigwindowsreview.com/ at Washtenaw Community
College, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. His poems have appeared recently in Haven
Speculative, Sledgehammer, and Spellbinder. Tom's
website: https:/thomaszimmerman.wordpress.com
Twitter: @bwr_tom Instagram: tzman2012
Bernice Holtzman’s paintings and collages have appeared in shows at various venues
in Manhattan, including the Back Fence in Greenwich Village, the Producer’s
Club, the Black Door Gallery on W. 26th St., and one other place she
can’t remember, but it was in a basement, and she was well received.
