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Photo by: Rachel Pell
All the Words for Blue
One astronaut returned
held by
the moon and the unknown wanting
one small safe place in space,
Earth perfect oceans
conditions
for human living
Earth will survive, the astronauts say.
to tell us
It’s us. We are
flimsy, fragile, perhaps too soon
gone every word
from this for
beauty
our only home.
all the words for
blue.
All the Words for Blue
(in Understorey Magazine Issue 17, 2019 RE: Nature https://understoreymagazine.ca)
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