Today my favorite color is yellow
Flowers on
Florida trees told me so
Trumpeting loud against flat, lengthy blue
Like that Picasso who flows unasked
Into my every colored line
Today my favorite color is yellow
A trumpet for the times
Triumphant vulvas in bright daylight
Unselfconscious and free
Today my favorite color is yellow
Roaring lips who
Declare my majesty:
The Flower Kingdom
The Unceasing Dawn.
Those who stomp with foolish heavy feet
Crushing poetic petals under foot
Fall back, flabbergasted
By the immensity
of this brilliant
yellow flame.
I go down to its
burnt edges
Offering myself to the jaws of indignation
Prying me awake
Finding gaps in my knowledge
Righting wrongs fashioned by human hands
My own in sleep and
others, ragged nail and bone
I still cannot claim as other
Today my favorite color is yellow
Because hope is a wild fire
And we are its food.