Yellow Streak

First published in True Colour (Redmond, Washington: City of Redmond, 2014).

yellow roses

on the attorney’s desk—

lost case

a yellow-bellied sapsucker

under museum glass

small town—

a little yellow journalism

goes a long way

stock-market crash—

talk again

of the Yellow Peril

errors in the Internet article

about the Yellow Kid

yellow streak—

again I fail

to introduce myself