Once upon a time I spent 10 days on a sailboat in the ocean, sailing north. The blue water has been calling me back ever since.
Ultramarine Gulf Stream
liquid conveyor belt, carry my dreams
let me skip along your surface
don’t let me get too deep
Each periwinkle morning
turns to a turquoise blanket of hope
entreating us to sail boldly
past the continental slope
And in the afternoon
a bluefin tuna of iridescent azure
is plucked from the waters
with a silver spoon lure
Sir, we royally salute you
and your noble fate
served up, shimmering,
upon a sapphire plate
Herculean cerulean
yet effortlessly triumphant
we scan for the next horizon
to grasp the earth’s circumference
until we rest our heads
under a diamond indigo shawl
the blue will fuel our reveries-
sailors, explorers, dreamers, all.
Ultramarine is the color of the Gulf Stream.
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Lupita Eyde-Tucker is a bilingual poet and translator raised in New Jersey and Guayaquil, Ecuador. She is the winner of the 2021 Unbound Book Festival Emerging Poet Award, the 2019 Betty Gabehart Prize, and in 2018 was selected as an AWP Writer to Writer Mentee by poet Maggie Smith. In 2022 her poetry manuscript, "Eucalyptus," was a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Prize from Letras Latinas. The manuscript explores her Sephardic Jewish ancestry and bi-cultural heritage.
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