heat wave
at the big city
flower market
ten thousand shades
of radiant yellow

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Margarita Engle

Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of young adult novels in verse, including The Surrender Tree, which received the first Newbery Honor ever awarded to a Latino. Her most recent book is Hurricane Dancers, the First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck.

11 thoughts on “”

  1. "ten thousand shades
    of radiant yellow"

    What a fantastic couple of lines. Unfortunately yellow reminds me of machine gun rounds if you mean yellow derived from saffron. Long story. ;-)

    alan

  2. a lone leaf
    yellow with a bleeding of red
    on the moss

    To have an eye that can distinguish colors is a wonderful gift. Some people can't tell the difference between blue and green … or green and red.

  3. in the yellow mums
    the radiant yellow eyes
    of a stray kitten

    In Chicago, on Lincoln Avenue across the street from Second City is a great cut-flower and plant shop. It displays much of its inventory on the sidewalk.

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