All the Yellows Peaking for a Half Hour

Claire Wilcox

Excerpt from All the Yellows Peaking for a Half Hour

…The mist off

trucks…seems to have a yellow…sort of…vague

yellowness to it…if you look at it sort of…as a

swath…there’s a yellow haze…but now the trees

are green…and in the rearview mirror there are

lights…there are one, two, three, four, five, six,

seven, eight lights…nine, ten d then I two smaller

lights, a deeper yellow ifme…I’m hungry for this

sushi I bought at the sthat has yellow roe on

it…little roe…and on the the gas pump I left these

specks…yeah, tobigo

a yellow disappointment…disappoint hovers over t

leaping black deer over yellow

diamond two yellow hazard lights flashing on the

back of a trail pulled over on the

…black deer on a yellow diamond

…butter patches are, uh,...nailed…to municipal

metal barriers…debris on the shoulder...passing…

through the grime…I have retained yellow, if I

say yellow, and I say yellow, you can no longer

use ityellow. like if I’ve said yellow, and

therefore inhabit yellow, when you see yellow

you will think on this and have it

is yellow there is the yellow and The

yellow Yellow faded butter yellow

showing yellow oyster is yellow

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But these is different yellows is

passingyellowing the yellow of Lucy close

to yellow

A yellow peaksis is legal yellow

minimization and undo is the bar of yellow

gradient which is the yelloseeming, 1sticks.

yellow

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Yello hey. there is a

Yellow

tip of speed, opened yellocrowning patternd

yellow is . type of yellow

aforementioned yellow border,

there is a corner leeching out. the yellow

hint.

there is a newly sighted yellow

knotted yellow hiding past the yellow

interstice. returns

there is minimization.undoes

yellow suggestion. yellow in these

I read thmy attention: faculties: interrupted.

when I wrote in a poem “PM WORMs the idea

of how anything flashing seeks to enters into

choice, connecting me back to things I’ve

read, to my research into bourgeois interiors;

where it seemed yellow was all over. Peaking

[the uncanny [yellow], the yellow decade]

I remember when a piece of

yellow caution tape snapped in my peripheral

vision as I was walking down the street with

my brother and his frie

nds. I saw it was a piece of yellow in my

peripheral vision. I saw that it was caution

tape, but my bowere seized with the

thougSNAKE.

What could that possibly be looking at