The crispness of Delft blue
on bright pottery, tinge
of puddled gray-blue,
hint of turquoise in a
blood vein, the stark
blue of a winter lake,
salutatory blue
hue of a bird
 
perhaps all appear
as what we define as “green”
to the Himba tribe
of Namibia
as they do not
have a word for what
we call blue,
but name more
shades of green.
This is “buru,” greens
and blues and no distinction
between
sky that mirrors
in language the land.