for everything which is yes

Sifaka lemurs’
diamond-shaped irises burn
orange–like sunned amber.

The giant bamboo:
as green-gray and tranquil as
pre-tornado skies.

Angola, simply,
is listless less: the colors,
the singing, their hearts.

Wandies’ strawberry
ice cream is hot pink–but cold
as a winter’s night.

It never leaves you,
but just like its children, you’d
never ask it to.

Flattened, brown with dirt,
the plastic water bottle
lies like a dead fish.

Black cracks (between white
scales of a charring log) shrink
and swell like fish gills.