Blush Poem by Paul Hartal

A rosy color
spread across
her cheek slowly
as she blushed,
the vermilion
of Mars shining
in the night sky.

The crimson
of hemoglobin
in her blood cells
came showing
on the surface
of her skin,
the same iron:
30 neutrons,
26 electrons
and as many
protons,
locked
in the ferric atom,
in harmonious hues
just like
the scarlet
sand dunes
of the Red Planet.

She reddened
and a solar wind
swept
through space
between Earth
and Mars,
a vestal verse
ringing
taciturn chimes
in a dancing
universe.