Taste of tangerine.
Blue as Tuesday.
Wings, the texture of powdered sugar

Novelists are serious about taxonomy–
the blur of color and text on labels
of blue butterfly genera.

Here’s how it panned out:
the stick of dynamite,
thrown on the pond
to break up ice for trout

Muskrat dives, heavy, into a ditch.       The water-sound shimmers like sheep ...