Mikaela Castledine #79 My Favourite Blue

You are wearing

your shirt

of my favourite blue

yours too perhaps

I can see you clear across the room

With your white hair

pulled back to your neck

you are like

a little Greek island

all of your own

a tiny church on a little island

of white and blue

and we can sail our boats to you

to admire your lines

and marvel at your timeless structure

to bask in your sun

to come away refreshed

You are wearing your shirt

of my favourite blue

a sintering cobalt blue

like the edges of the sky

you are fine as any Chinese porcelain

blue as bridges and the willows over them

you are covetable as a pattern plate

on which we would like

to arrange ourselves

to our best advantage

You your shirt my favourite
blue

I can find you in any crowded room

and I will know when you have left it