Nothing but Blue Skies

 

A lesson from The Lathe of Heaven

Once we lose the blue in sky

We do not get it back

No matter how we rework the world

 

My guess is

We get it gray

Not a fashion gray or gray painted for

Attractive shutters

 

But gray the color of pollution

(have it plain)

How our factories and cities make it

 

So we could find it now

The sullen gray

Somewhere a quotidian gray

Increasing

 

C L Couch

 

 

The Lathe of Heaven, a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

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