Monday, August 17, 2020

color, august 16th

yellow
is the
late afternoon
sunflower
coneflower
coreopsis.
It's the
compass plant
complaint
to an ox-eye
or black-eyed Susan
as they wither
in the heat,
high
above
verbena,
hover over
wild onions.

Yellow is a
dusk goldfinch,
thistle fed,
flying
wind-combed
over rattlesnake master,
to perch upon
tall teasle
and praise the dying day.

Yellow
is the
last light
upon an
evening
river,
rising,
as fiery starred hearts of milkweed
lift up from the
green again grass,
so full of shadows,
that will
soon swallow everything.