the great american yellow poem

    she heard tales about saving grapefruit skins for cooking

    she grew bright under the neon dragon of Chinatown

    she made saffron curry rice for friends

    she attended a barbecue in Amarillo， Texas

    she stepped around yellow piss in snow

    she cut herself on a Hawaiian pineapple

    she learned to name forsythia where it grew

    visions of ochre and citronella eluded her