Out of the Blue

Reprise, A Poem in Prose

Hello, Readers ~ We’re on the sprint to March! Thanks so much for being here. I have a reprise excerpt from my hybrid memoir, I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls. Like many authors, I can’t help but tweak a piece of writing. Hope you like it.

Out of the Blue a Poem in Prose What did Virgo’s stars portend? A prophecy of place and time, a raison d’être. On the designated date, September twenty-one, the cusp of Libra the Just, she was pushed into the autumnal equinox. Formed in a fog like a nebula. Delivered in sorrow on fall’s first day. Early autumn brought blue asters, sweaters, schooldays, and storms. The mother and child—placed together by unvirtuous accident—were separated in a single swift scoop of happenstance that all concerned should be protected. A union of chance brought asunder by circumstance severed and left to wonder in a swirl of ambiguity and abstraction, my birth facts clouded by lies, muddled, muddied by secrets and lies. Names erased, records sealed. In another postwar charity case, she gave me life and left me in tears. Do you know, she gave me a name and left me in tears? And out of the wild blue yonder, blue like an autumn sky, like my sapphire birthstone, into the arms of an Air Force couple. Mary Ellen Gambutti