If it was true, if it was true, I would be sitting at one window
All one morning, testing the strength of the color blue. Is
Blue strong enough to surround and defeat all the other
Colors? Can the pervasiveness of blue make all other
Dreams surrender? Can it heal anything left behind?
Can it take me to the country where every step matters
And is felt, instead of lost? That would be our country,
Mine and Blue’s, blue as soft and true as indifference and
Forgetting, as remembering and making a monument to
Remembering, which is the science of incorporation of
Blues, of flags, counting the sciences, and resources,
And abilities, and losses, and diminishings, the belief in
Elements, and their overlap, and the invisible unsayable
Still unfound—something not in the Forest House, something
Far beyond.

Rebecca Pyle

Rebecca Pyle is an American writer and visual artist living the past year and a half in Europe, mainly in France. Her work appears in many art/lit journals, including The Silk Road Review, Pacifica, LIT, Indian Review, Wisconsin Review, Eclectica, Posit, Map Literary, Solstice, The Courtship of Winds, The Los Angeles Review, and Terrain. See rebeccapyleartist.com.