Yellow Over Blue

Posted on April 26, 2016 by John Biscello
Yellow and Blue Mark Rothko Print
Yellow is the saddest color, she said.
Some think it is blue, but it is not.
Blue is the common choice for the color of sad, the popular one, but yellow is much sadder than blue.
Yellow blinds you with hurt, a gentle deadly glare, almost musical, that gets in and behind your eyes;
it is the palsied hum in your head that never ever stops, a low insistent droning;
it is the slow death of bees, the shadows of their agony and grace;
the screams at the bottom of a childhood,
the hidden tonsils of a well, those too are yellow;
it is the season of suicidal leaves, consigning themselves to the cradle of Wind, which becomes their fated pallbearer.
Yellow infects the necessary dark; it is by far the saddest moon,
the softest of last kisses.

 

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About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of four novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, and No Man’s Brooklyn; a collection of stories, Freeze Tag, two poetry collections, Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street; and a fable, The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined. His produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, THE BEST MEDICINE, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.
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