Happiness is Bright Blue

By: Ashley Williamson

It is now and always was

Rolling downhill

blue sky flashing

grass-stained skin

Again!

Again,

surprise electricity

butterfly blue in the jungle

morpho fleeting

moment melting faster

than tres-leches devoured

Again,

the milky alpine pool

arresting icy turquoise

tugging at the roots of my hair

ecstatic diving

Again,

romanticizing airplanes

counting hues of skies and seas

counting continents and clouds

spotting icebergs still frozen

Again,

weaving personal mythologies

past midnight staring

at the blue heart of the flames

Again,

your eyes shock the heart-beat

quicker

steady sky scraps

I return

Again,

to bright blue

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Ashley Williamson is an American poet living in the inspiring English Lake District. She is currently working on her Undergraduate of Creative Writing at Oxford University. When not writing, she works as an industrial radiographer for a small family business in the aero-space industry. She wanders the Lake District, rock collecting and painting. Her poetry features in Wingless Dreamer, Sad Girls Lit Mag, and upcoming editions of Beyond Words Literary Magazine and The Festival Review