Blue Alice blue cyan
akin to something
bristling on azurite
you have to add some
grit to the principal
substance the “carrier”
I think it’s called
though I might never know
the true import
it comes out in
six or seven segregate heads
but in avoidance of
figures developing
much more eccentrically
spathe-like leaves
floating in stalls beneath
and down with that cheerfulness
in no particular
relation to you at its
centermost hesitant
to say anything even
to confess it
sticks in you
to even intimate it
must terribly be
what the art arched off from
from The Great Medieval Yellows Find more by Emily Wilson at the library
Copyright © 2015 Emily Wilson
Used with the permission of Canarium Books.