The Better Chancery Practice Blog

There is no word for the color of a blue jay feather
not blue, anyway, so they say –
they who also say the bumble bee should not fly

A blue jay erupted from a myrtle tree,
a single feather in the grass
the only emblem that remained of him

To reach it I startled a bumble bee at his tasks
in a jasmine and he fled annoyed from me
into his improbable flight against physics

Against physics: the color of a blue jay feather
is blue