Yellow
All night she keeps the car radio on,
driving from station to station. Bhangra,
long waves, police calls, Walking on the Moon.
In the morning her life is behind her
and light comes shearing through the Southern rain.
She stops to take pictures of a rainbow,
the span of it above the contraflow
so still, as if nothing has yet fallen,
not her out of her life nor this downpour
through all the empty places of the sky.
Daffodils wave their yellow heads at her
and suddenly she thinks of poetry:
beautiful things. The perfect words you say
only later, too late, driving away.
Tobias Hill was selected in 2004 as one of the country’s Next Generation poets and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His first poetry collection, Year of the Dog, won an Eric Gregory Award; the second, Midnight in the City of Clocks, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; and the third, Zoo, was a PBS Special Commendation. He is also a successful writer of fiction.
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