Carrie Magness Radna | Green = Blue + Yellow

Green = Blue + Yellow

If eyes are the windows of the soul,
I saw a little of yours; you dared me to —

In a non-staring contest,
I noticed another universe:

The left eye contained a legend of shimmering electricity.
Its pupil housed a well where elder stars fell,
germinating new ones gathering at the rims
of the cosmic jade sea.

In the right eye,
the constellations wrapped around two planets,
joined at the hips: one blue, another yellow,

and they were constantly humming,
in perfect synchrony, under glass,
blending into a true green.




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Carrie Magness Radna is an audiovisual cataloger at New York Public Library, a choral singer and a poet who loves traveling. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Mediterranean Poetry, Muddy River Poetry Review, Poetry Super Highway, Walt’s Corner, Polarity eMagazine, The Poetic Bond and First Literary Review-East. Her latest poetry collection, Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press), was published in December 2019. In the blue hour (Nirala Publications) is expected to be released early 2021. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, Carrie lives with her husband in Manhattan.