Blue Without a Name
written by: Kathryn MacDonald
Rain approaches – the sky
that particular shade of blue,
blue without a name.
Your skin feels its moist coming,
a quenching wall moving toward you.
Wind gusts from the south, hums
through sailboat rigging, creates
a percussion of halyards rapping masts.
Clouds release a patter on canvas,
as rain once tapped a tin roof
above a double bed flooding
memory before the hollow bone
of longing adds a blue beat
to the rain’s blue song.
Kathryn MacDonald has published in literary journals such as Humana Obscura and Amethyst Review in the U.S., Dust and The High Window in the U.K., FreeFall and Room in Canada, plus journals in Ireland, and India. Her poem “Duty / Deon” won the Arc Award of Awesomeness (January 2021. “Seduction” was entered in the Freefall Annual Poetry Contest and was published in Freefall (Fall 2020). She is the author of "Far Side of the Shadow Moon" (chapbook), "A Breeze You Whisper: Poems, and Calla & Édourd" (fiction).
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