Some Answers You Never Considered
At the cusp of night, before the sun steams out in the ocean,
and blues abandon the reds.
Nothing rests at the core of zero.
Cerulean blue was first marketed as coerulium.
What we consider sky includes only its lowest reaches.
Even considering a dense history with kites, I humbly concede,
and admit sacrifice as atonement, with grace.
No. I say it again. No.
Your visual system constructs the colors you see.
Only when the wind unbuttons its greatcoat, or at the tip
of an icicle, just before the drop catches itself.
Release the line and know the freedom of loss.
Transparent yet wide, unfolded like a fist freeing
a swarm of bees into honeyed air, it contains us.
Your inability to see it does not refute the horizon’s base.
If I knew I’d tell you.
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“Some Answers You Never Considered” first appeared in Underfoot in October 2017.
O at the Edges 
Preferable to questions without answers – giving us much more scope for thought
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I have many answers, but more questions keep popping up. If only I could match them to each other.
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Depth with humor; what’s not to love?
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Thanks, Cate. “If I knew I’d tell you” is perhaps my favorite all-purpose answer. 😃
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“Release the line and know the freedom of loss.” Indeed. Gotta like an answer that doubles as practical advice… 💗
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Letting go – the story of my life.
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Wonderful! I love the images of the wind unbuttoning its greatcoat, and the opening fist releasing bees into the honeyed air. Those will stay with me for a long time.
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Thank you, Deborah. I’m so pleased they resonated for you.
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“Your visual system constructs the colors you see” – maybe with some mental influence? Since reading your poem “Yellow, Lost” yesterday I have been fixated on a certain yellow dress from younger (by far!) years … “seeing” that yellow cotton as vividly if I were wearing it.
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Most definitely! I believe our visual systems interpret input from many areas.
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So many questions, oh where lies the answers, as per your finale.
“Your inability to see it does not refute the horizon’s base.
If I knew I’d tell you.”
https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2018/04/11/circumference/
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An occasional shock to the system does me good, reminds me that just because I can’t see something doesn’t mean it isn’t there!
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Actually the last one seems to come up in my life quite often…(K)
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I so seldom know that it’s often the most appropriate answer I can offer.
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Lovely, thank you for pointing to a way knowing and not telling
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Answers and questions – they often exist in the same body.
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