Turbid Blue - Poems

Water is the driver of life, found on nearly every surface environment on Earth. You cannot get away from it and live. It is what drives every biologic process yet is something that does not demand our attention daily. It is always within you, around you, and you curse it when you spill it on your electronics. And water is never just water. Chemically speaking, it is unique and variable. There are so many ways to contaminate a perfectly good glass of water.
The world is water, and he was blue. He was that vibrant, deep-hued blue that you couldn't mistake. He was all the softness and gentleness and rationalization and he harnessed the world, setting time and events in a grid through which I could navigate.
This is a chronicle about the dissolution of such a relationship. A universal human experience told through the lens of a scientist watching a contaminant come into the world and ruin things: cute as a cat, deadly as benzene.