– Maggie Nelson, from Bluets (Wave Books, 2009) Time when I would rather have had you by my side thanĪny one of these words I would rather have had you by I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a Work.” Often it feels more like balancing two sides of anĮquation–occasionally quite satisfying, but essentially a Work feels arduous, never feels to me like “a hard day’s Perhaps this is why writing all day, even when the Holiday knew, it remains the case that to see blue inĭeeper and deeper saturation is eventually to move to-ġ85. Just what her blues is all about.” Nonetheless, as Billie Got them bad / She feels so sad / Wants the world to know

See, for example, “Lady Sings the Blues”: “She’s Of course one can have “the blues” and stay alive, at

Want you to know, I no longer hold you responsible.ġ35. What I know: when I met you, a blue rush began. I am still looking for the beauty in that.Ĩ1. Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sad. I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity Dip articles separately for a short time keep Stir while squeezing the Blue in the last The instructions printed on the blue junk’s wrapper: Not, but I choose to think so (self-aggrandizement).Ħ5. Does the world look bluer from blue eyes? Probably Men asks, Why blue? People ask me this question often. Than a sleeve of ash falling off a lit cigarette. Haps, my way of making my life feel “in progress” rather Saying this for years without writing a word. Rently working on a book about the color blue. At a job interview at a university, three men sittingĪcross from me at a table.

Bluets poetry