Now for Something Lighter…

….on a cool-ish rainy Saturday morning in southeast Virginia.

Bias

They say that deer

can perceive shades of blue

beyond the spectrum

perceptible to the human eye.

That seems unnecessarily unfair

given my love for the gradient

running from ice-blue and purple.

I envy what I may be missing

and wonder what sort of adaptational

advantage this acuity provides deer:

the better to assess clearing skies

and apprehend cleaner water?

Or to avoid flowers whose blue flounces

proffer poison like a tea-cake?

Surely, such a combination does not exist. 

Surely, blue is kinder than that —

a sign of purity and protection

rather than threat…