#18: mustard yellow daydreams

           for Vincent Van Gogh

yellow unleashed by a powerful sun

baking and frying, it still isn’t done

striking from daisies and daffodils,

quantities glinting from window sills —

pipings by the causeways yellow,

yanking yellow dewdrops off

a flaxen patch of trees.

hands that actually fabricate

dazzling concrete cakes of yellow,

corn unstalked and left askance —

bubbling upward yellow towers,

tufts of lemon wildflowers

passing fast careening car —

a gallery of ineluctable

starry-eyed and whimsical

rhymes engorged with sounds entangled

in a golden spiral — spangled

teensy tiny chickens in

an undiscovered barnyard hatching,

sticks of cream and custard matching

mustard yellow daydreams!

KC Wilder

Barnwood poetry Magazine