The Divine in Yellow
And you go to the Safeway
and the divine is still
with you there,
smiling with the bananas,
plump with love among the mangos,
watching wide-eyed through
bright yellow lemons . . .
well, maybe not there
at the Safeway—
no there—Yes! There,
still there,
shopping at the Safeway, too.
Virginia Barrett is a poet, writer, artist, editor, and educator. She earned her MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco where she was poetry editor of Switchback. Her seventh book of poetry, The Vessels We Carry Keep Us Alive, is forthcoming from Saint Julian Press in 2026 as well as her sixth editing project, YELLOW: a Hue Are You anthology, the third book in a series. http://www.virginiabarrett.com
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