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Nancy Harris Mclelland

Poetry, Prose, Opinions about Aging from an Ex-cowgirl Octogenarian.

Yellow Abecedarius



“Now we are having beautiful warm windless weather that is very beneficial to me. The sun, a light that for lack of a better word I can only call yellow, bright sulfur yellow, pale lemon gold.  How beautiful yellow is!”  


Vincent Van Gogh


Aged faces 


Bees buzzing in buttercups


Cowardice!  No, not so.  Color of courage in Japan


Daffodil’s diseased leaves


Egyptian female pharaohs painted in ancient tombs


Frogs with yellow bellies hop away and hide


Gold the world over


How to mark a Heretic


Indian merchants


Jaundiced skin means yellow fever 


Yellow Kid journalism


Lemons and legal pads


Moonlight and marigolds


Nazis forced Jews to sew on their sleeves yellow triangles with the star of David 


Ochre horse painted on a wall at  Lascaux


Political praxis of Yellow Peril, pineapples;  post-it notes


Quince


Standing in a stunning field of rape singing the “Yellow Rose of Texas,”  


Sun! star at the center of our solar system, staying stable for another five billion years

Taxis, Turmeric, Tonka trucks 


Urine-stained underwear


Visible of all colors--yellow with black--STOP!


Wearing a yellow ribbon while waiting for John Wayne


Xanthopsia, an eye condition in which objects appear yellow-- why Van Gogh loved yellow so


Yellow submarines, where we all live with the Beatles


Zinnias in your backyard

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