Blue Vein

Day 17

Ryan Taylor
2 min readJan 17, 2024

A Poem

Photo by Yannick Apollon on Unsplash

A blue vein

is visible

going from the

middle knuckle

in a slant

when he

grips the brush.

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Sometimes it

is little moments

that make us

remember—

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We are filled

with blood,

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but surely,

not just blood.

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This body

is an

overview;

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a street performer,

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a man with

long dreadlocks

playing his

saxophone among

the streetlights,

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or a woman

in full stride,

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it is unfair,

they say,

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the way the world

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