Blue Period in Seattle

John Gorskis Blue Period in Seattle traffics in a play of atmosphere, both meteorological and psychological. These atmospheres evoke a kind of emotional synesthesia: I get off the bus/ at 64th and Linden/ because the dark organ chords of alcohol laughter/ are playing out of tune. Blue Period in Seattle dares us to partake of a fretted, penumbral world, haunted by muses who are alternately flushed from the rose pink immanence /of the morning horizon and morbidly pale: her pre-Raphaelite facea lun