Robert Verdon, #394, yellow

yellow gumboots tiny

stepping up a tapioca rainbow

spattered with red

high explosive streaks both ways

revolution is easy on paper

even easier on the screen

with luck it needn’t be televised at all

yellow is the colour of today

yellow in all its glory

panning in yellow gumboots

in side-light fading or brightening

that cowardly fake river of scandalous gold