Fentanyl Blue

…and his body was blue

                  not blue like a summer sky

a child paints across the top of a picture

                  a strip of green at the bottom

not blue like blueberry pie

                  fresh out of the oven

eager fingers digging

                  beneath the crust

blue like nothing left 

                  only a soundless laptop 

a cup of cold coffee

                  an empty vial…

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Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, and Healing Muse, among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.