Baby Blues

baby blues

The blue
is like that
of irises in winter
blue but purple
dark, deep
the colour of the underbelly
of a whale
as you swim upwards
towards light
the colour of tears
cried with only reasons
the colour of lazy focus
shifting shapes
of seeing with ears, touch
the colour of the eyes
of my sister’s child
and I wonder
what colour
the eyes might have been
of my own

© Dominique White July 2001