That This Blue Exists…

by Carole Mertz

I take up a spool of blue thread

determined to thread my way

through the amateur marriage

toward a formidable dinner

at the Homesick Restaurant.

Together we’ll be digging to

America; bluets will help us

with our breathing lessons and

the empathy exams

in order to arrive, perhaps,

at Saint Maybe, the place where 

she’ll chant her usual and

clumsy beginner’s goodbye.

We’ll continue searching

for Caleb, through the gap

of time, trying to tie together

the sleeper and the spindle.

Together we’ll navigate a

patchwork planet, searching

for a distant view of

everything.

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“That this Blue Exists...” won the Wilda Morris August 2017 poetry challenge to write a “title” poem. In her poem, “That This Blue Exists…,” the author met a poetry challenge by creating playful settings using titles of various authors." There is a new challenge each month. Carole Mertz's poems have been winners of three or four challenges over the years.

Carole Mertz, poet and essayist, has work in CutBank, The Ekphrastic Review, and World Literature Today, among other venues. Her 2019 debut chapbook, Toward a Peeping Sunrise, is available through Prolific Press. Carole is book review editor at Dreamers Creative Writing.