Summer is always yellow

This is another prompt from Nelly Bryce (Poetry Pals) for her Poetry in Summer challenge (Week One, linked below). The prompt is "summer color." That can only mean yellow to me.

A little detail from one of my youngest daughter’s paintings.

Nelly Bryce

’s Poetry in Summer (Week One) post can be found here.

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Summer is always yellow, always the splash
of sun on the sidewalk, the etch of yellow chalk
making a girl and a bunny and a house and a tree

always the yellow of Rainier cherries, the underside
of a blushing peach, the dash of lemon on a red nectarine
the yellow where the watermelon rested on the earth.

The middle of a daisy, the sink of a setting sun, the sand
you move through your hands and feet while watching 
the late afternoon ocean, a million coins of light

shining hard against the waves, the shout of fire 
from the fireworks, yellow sparks racing down 
to the yellow-scrawled ground.