YELLOW

Yellow

Think of something yellow.

The sun?

A fat ripe pear

or buttercup petals?

Yellow is butter

Yellow is butter.

Yellow is custard.

Yellow is egg-yolks.

Yellow has all the answers.

Yellow is like

an advert that twists your eyes

till they light on yellow.

What is yellow?

Nobody answered.

Shakeela smiled

and stroked her yellow

shalwar khameez

so butterly

and buttercuply

that all our fingers turned yellow.

Helen Dunmore