"yellow infers itself from papayas"

---

May you imbibe sunshine today.
May light play on your skin.
May you notice every single thing that’s yellow.

Praise for a Color
   by Adélia Prado

Yellow infers from itself papayas and their pulp,
penetrable yellow.
At noon: bees, sweet stinger and honey.
Whole eggs and their nucleus, the ovum.
This interior thing, miniscule.
From the blackness of the blind viscera,
hot and yellow, the miniscule speck,
the luminous grain.
Yellow spreads and smooths, a downpour
of the pure light of its name,
tropicordial.
Yellow turns on, turns up the heat,
a charmed flute,
an oboe in Bach.
Yellow engenders.

—translated from the Portuguese by Ellen Doré Watson

---

from Drama of the Forests, Arthur Heming, 1921

---

Creative Invitation

1
Think about a color as an ally. What message does it have for you?

2
Close your eyes. What is the most vivid color you remember from your early life?
What did you want from that color when you were little, or what did it give you?

2
What is the texture of your happiness?
What is the color of your closest companionship?
Write or draw.