The blue ceiling

I keep looking at the blue ceiling

royal blue ceiling

crisscrossed by white timbers

framing the blue ceiling and think

of the blue heaven and the white bridge

to the blue heaven, the one way,

and consider the blue heaven

framing the white timbers

the heaven highlighting the one way.

The blue heaven remains, unchanged,

blue highlighting white

white highlighting blue

and I keep expecting to see the flames

of red, orange red, to lighten

the dark places

the dark spaces

the dark interiors.

Photograph by Petr Kratochvil via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.