I Spy Yellow
all colors and descriptions from A Is for Azure by L.L. Barkat, illustrated by Donna Z. Falcone
you are a Brass-petaled field
a Jasmine coil
a Xanthic mix
sometimes I hear your Yellow hello
you are tucked in a Red bed for gold
you hide in plain sight in Kiwi
and Vermillion
and Umber
and Silver
even White
in the corners of Purple
along a Navy trail
on the far edge of an Iceberg stream
you are nowhere to be found in Fuchsia
I spy you
in a Cranberry twirl
and a Denim blue sea
perhaps that is you on the margins of an Orange flame
in the back of a Midnight terrain — a bulb blooming bright
until morning’s Tangerine sun