Emily Jalloul is a Lebanese-American poet. She earned her MFA at Florida International University in 2017, and she begins her journey towards a PhD in poetry at the University in Tennessee this fall. Her previous work has been published or is forthcoming in Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Gravel, Juked, Origins, The FEM, as well as others.

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Blue

By EMILY JALLOUL

We deliberate: not sky, not baby, not periwinkle or teal.