by Lindsey Pucci
Something Blue
Here isn’t anything like in the books
we’ve brought for you to read. I’m sorry
we weren’t thinking. There was no time.
And now, you don’t believe in blue
sky, or birds, or trees, because we have
none. Here, they’d be luxuries. Your world
is red, and sandstorms blow
fragments of curiosity and insight past
the nursery, past the clear tanks full
of fish and algae, past the hydroponics lab
where every day I try to grow
something old, something new, life
borrowed from cuttings, seeds, or cells.
Annette C. Boehm (she / her) is a queer poet from Germany. She is the author of The Apidictor Tapes (forthcoming this October) and The Knowledge Weapon, as well as two chapbooks. She serves as a poetry reader for Memorious.
Lindsey Pucci lives with her Husband and Son in Minnesota. She received her B.S. at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse where she was the recipient of the Carol Quillins Art Scholarship. Her art has been shown at the State Street Gallery and the La Crosse Center for the Arts in Wisconsin. Lindsey’s photography has been on the cover of Nightingale & Sparrow and published in the Parliament Lit Journal. She can be found on Instagram @linney_bee.