Months on it recurs in disparate forms,
\nthe famous blue of those ubiquitous chairs
\nin orderly rows, sun loungers and parasols,
\nstriped blue on bone white sand,
\nthe graduated blue of the middle of August
\nreflected in the tinted lenses of new
\nsunglasses bought to replace a pair left at home.
\nCertain tiles \u2013 Odysseus\u2019 spear tip,
\nPolyphemus\u2019 beard, Charybdis\u2019 eyes,
\na Siren\u2019s headband \u2013 Hellenic blue laid in
\nmosaics adorning thirteen steps
\nin the park above the port, sections of
\nthe play area surfacing that you pass
\ngoing up or down them painted childish blue,
\nthen the corporate blue lettering on the ferries
\narriving from Corsica and Sardinia
\nthat unload and load up again and fade off
\ninto the azure blue of the sea itself.
\nSwimming pool blue on a rooftop with a bar
\nand a view over to the five domes
\nof St Nicholas, orthodox blue; Yves Klein blue
\nholding sway in the museum of modern art,
\na print, one of Matisse\u2019s blue nudes
\nhung over the bed in the hotel room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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