Blue light on dark rivers,blue notes floating in veils of winddown chasms of blue canyonswhose denouement issuesinto fields of tiny bluets limning the dawn.
I covet illusions:my diaspora of bluish stars,periwinkle glinting wet the eye,and two sapphires shy recessed in the iris.I see a child’s face face the worldlike aqua light borne in waterblinking awake.
What theatre of stars doesn’t expire?I stand in the night heatof high summer, cherish the starlightimparted with far-flung dreams,learning to losethe trajectories, the tendrils of constellationsI could always locate out of lovere-arranging their crooked conversationbehind the mystery of roofs.Eventually they rise out of the fringe of trees,and drape garlands in the pondaround a wading moon
whose sheath I float through tethered to my madness.
Where are you now?
Still I am blue for lack of you,and forgiveness is a low blue flame.
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About the writer
Stelios Mormoris. Stelios Mormoris is a native of Boston, MA. He is the CEO of EDGE BEAUTY, Inc., which markets wellness products online. Citizen of Greece and the U.S., and raised in New York, he has spent most of his adult life living in Paris. He received my undergraduate degree in architecture at Princeton, and M.B.A. from INSEAD in Paris. He is a former professional rugby player, as well a contemporary artist, specializing in abstract oil painting. He started seriously writing poetry in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton as a student of William Meredith and Maxine Kumin, and later at Columbia with Stanley Kunitz. His work has been published in Gargoyle, Humana Obscura, Midwest Poetry Review, Nassau Literary Review, Press, South Road, Spillway, Sugar House Review, Verse, The Whelk Walk Review and other literary journals. He believes in community services, and has held positions on the Boards of the French Cultural Center of BOSTON, Historic New England, the Fragrance Foundation, and ACT-UP.
