Blue Facade, by Jackie Langetieg

The Blue Facade, by Piet Mondrian (Netherlands) 1914

Blue Facade

Honeyed green tea sipped in the café still warms me
          explosion of people running
          blue for one man dying
          window shades and a mailbox

Golden clouds hold a sampan’s shadow
          Rain, streaks on my eyes
          blue, lavender, turquoise
          trickles, deluges

Sidewalk a path through sedge and bush
          Tall on the lawn
          Mother sits captive
          on the blue balcony

Caught in the middle 
          colours submerging me
          ocean reaches toward sky
          earth beckons

Jackie Langetieg

Jackie Langetieg has published poems in literary magazines: Verse Wisconsin, Blue Heron Review. She’s won awards, such as WWA’s Jade Ring contest, Bards Chair, and Wisconsin Academy Poem of the Year. She is a regular contributor  to the Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar. She has written five books of poems, most recently, Letter to My Daughter, and a memoir, Filling the Cracks with Gold.