Third Study in Blue

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• Third Study in Blue
• Daniel Schwartz

The blue freak rides in his blue train for days, zippingunzipping, he howls at how the freakish earthkeeps warm, thinking the landis a staircase, and through its balustrade, the towns appearlike shy children threading themselves, thingsthe blue trees remember. He goes from purple Mainewhere rocks grow in blue soil, and turquoise is the deepabstraction of lobster, where a shroud of black quartzis the painless face of midnight, and daylight is animalstillness, the unsubduable watchedness like the bluefreak himself. Embalmed blueof the osprey, and the shore is a necklaceburied in the ocean's skin. He wonders how othersevade his freakish fate, seeing inside windowswhere the blue wolf twists himself into rope, and blue fatherknots his home, a living shapebereft of living geometry. Blue freak will notwrest a voice from that blue howling, will not livein that muscling cordage. The train unseamspurple, an abducted blue of translucence, andblue mistress awaits. [End Page 110]

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