Wherever you go, find the color and follow
her to an origin. The spherical tapestry
of nanostructures blueberries hold
like an unstoppable, quantum secret.
Feather of a fisherman’s streamer-fly—each
downy barb returned to a jay’s cobalt bust.
A blue morpho butterfly, beating in reverse
to her sleeping stage, flying, though still
uncut from God’s origami. And
the cardiac blaze beneath
this griddle of text: a circuitry,
returned—gorgeous, sapphire gush inhaled
and oxidized by my fingers, a bobbing
chorus of cornflowers.
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 27, Issue 3.
Courtney Hitson teaches English at the College of the Florida Keys. She currently has work forthcoming in Kestrel Review, Sequestrum, Qu, Teach. Write., and Flyway Journal. Outside of writing she enjoys history, freestyle unicycling, and philosophy. Courtney and her husband, Tom (also a poet), reside in Key West, Florida with their two cats.
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