Smiling Blue

Smiling Blue 

Blue jeans
and blueberry pancakes
and coffee in a blue mug
I write these words
from a blue pen
remembering the blue in
the French rooms and
French dreams of last night's movie
and the edges of the plate holding
syrup and butter and smooth
rich cream
are also a pretty
colonial blue
and I have come to the
fourth day
of my return visit
to the City of blues
without too much fear
and less time for indecision
embracing a rainy
grey Saturday
enjoying the many blues
without being blue
yet hoping for a
sunny blue sky
to end this
tiny vacation!

@Elvia Arriola (2001)