Lake Water Blue by Julie A. Dickson
White sunglasses framed
mother’s face - pink
white zinc-oxide nose,
matched her sunglasses
covered her blue eyes,
bluer than lake water
bluer than a robin’s egg
bluer than a cloudless sky
I looked up – no sunglasses
brown eyes uncovered,
brown more like mud.
I wanted blue eyes,
I wanted white sunglasses
like hers
Julie A. Dickson lives with two rescued feral cats. She writes of nature, current events and environment. Dickson advocates for circus and zoo elephants. Her poems appear in Misfit, Avocet, Ekphrastic Review and other journals. She is a Push Cart nominee and on the board of Poetry Society of NH.