blue

I have seen enough blue-green

for one day. My eyes are tired

of peering at the busy speckled lines

the lasered surface throws back.

Outside, the light falls

in jagged needles through raveled air.

The world is gray.

From up there, it’s blue,

the tiny water world, where life

climbed into the air and turned green,

maybe from envy that it’s not

somewhere else. It’s not easy, being

this way. It’s impossible to rest

with that great light going on

and off always in the same place,

knowing that it’s necessary,

unless you want to turn

white, in icy quiet,

against the black still motion

of the tattered specks of stars.

It’s enough to send you running

ragged, back to the sea.

Down there it’s blue, too,

the color of deep water

when at eighty feet there’s no bottom

and no sides to choose. Suspended,

up-ended, you have no sense

of proportion, lose perspective.

There’s only drifting with the flow,

until your bubbles rip a seam

upward showing you where

you have to go—back to the green,

and then the yellow and the red,

measured out in time for you

to find, until you reach

white, and you’ve got it all.

All is too much to see.

We must have shades.

The separation of the light

exists somewhere in particles,

torn into fragmentary bits to play,

scattered like the fall leaves,

but moving in waves—hello, goodbye—

on a collision course with white,

and black, and gray.

The green of life requires blue,

not too deep or too intense,

just a line of blue-green held in mind,

to knit tatters of shrouded days,

tint the darkness,

and relieve the time of glare

Once in a while

you know where it belongs,

in the order of the sharp-edged

double bow I saw this morning,

cutting its way into gray memory

to even up the edges

of the ragged clouds.

Poetry BY ROBERT L. JONES

 

 

 

 

Electric Blue Derby Shoes by Alber Elbaz,Lanvin for H&M, Dinner Jacket with Butterfly Sleeves by Ronnie Yu, Cigarette Pipe Pants by Dino Lloren, Black Orchid Printed Button Down Shirt by Diesel, Trinkets and Whatnot's by Aizelym

Photography by Ben Tui, assisted by John Canedo

Grooming by Chady Pantaleon assisted by Victoria Gorne

music inspiration for this set is BLUE from my favorite K-POP group, BigBang