Sonnet Containing The Word Blue by Jennifer Espinoza
- Shade Literary Arts
- Dec 17
- 1 min read
In the trees without you. On the porch without you.
No time to think - only to listen to wind chimes
play forest music under the soft gray blanket
of the sky. I wrote a song for you, but it doesn’t
exist yet. I had a dream about you I can’t remember.
In sleep, the bed begs for your weight, too silent.
A canopy of roses surrounds me like angels.
I think I can hear the river in the distance
or maybe cars, or maybe birds, or maybe
the sound of my heart fishing for itself in my chest.
Pulling into the driveway after a long day of work,
I imagine you inside, conjuring up light, making
beauty from the inbetween minutes of dusk.
I carry my blue up the stairs and wonder about your eyes.
JENNIFER ESPINOZA is a poet whose work has been featured in Poetry Magazine, the American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, Poem-a-day @poets.org, and elsewhere. She is the author of I'm Alive / It Hurts / I Love It (Big Lucks), THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS (The Accomplices) and I Don't Want To Be Understood (Alice James Books). She holds an MFA in poetry from UC Riverside and currently resides in California with her wife, poet/essayist Eileen Elizabeth, and their cat and dog.