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YELLOW


I’m wearing my yellow robe, drinking coffee out of a yellow mug that has a rooster on it. When I take coffee into my mouth, I hold off from swallowing and let my tongue believe it’s taking a luxurious bath. Traffic swooshes down the street. People are busy being busy. For hours, I’ve been planning a trip to the end of the driveway to pick up the newspaper. Ravens bicker with each other out in the yard. The cats circle my chair, beg to be let out to murder. Each day we inch our way toward death. One day, without knowing it, we buy the clothes we’ll be buried in. We smile for a camera that snaps the shot that’ll be used for our obituary. I’ll probably die in this robe, but until then I’m going to eat some waffles that come in a box that’s also yellow. Often, when children draw the sun, they’ll either use a yellow or orange crayon. The older, more advanced children will use both. In kindergarten, there was this kid who drew his suns in big, blood-red circles. The teacher once asked him why he chose red for his suns, and he said, “This is how I see it. This is how it is in my world.”

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from All This Living: Selected Recorded Poems, released February 26, 2023

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Joshua Michael Stewart is a poet and musician living in Western Massachusetts.

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