There’s yellow in you when you’re with me

There’s yellow in the way you kiss my forehead

There’s yellow in the way your thumb embraces mine

There’s yellow in the way you tell me you love me

 

There’s a yellow scarf in my bedroom closet

It always makes me think of you

So sometimes I wear it even when it doesn’t match my clothes

 

The yellow that pours from your chest is amber and I’m trapped inside it

I’m stuck in the maple syrup ringtone of your laugh

 

Wrap your arm around the small of my back, let the bone of my hip be your resting place

Wind my scarf around me and pull me in close to you

Let me hear your laugh again

 

Take me on a scavenger hunt

Let’s catch silver salmon in the blue rivers that pour out of the love songs on the radio

Let’s find the snowman we made on the hill last winter

He hasn’t melted yet

He’s just sleeping

He’s made of amber now

 

Let’s find ourselves in the red buttons on my jacket and the white of your t-shirt underneath your sweater

We can be cowboys together when it’s sweater weather again

For now we can just pour sweet iced tea into yellow glasses and drink them in the dining room

Or sit in rocking chairs on the front porch of our imaginations

 

I love you

I love the face you make when you’re putting on your shoes

I love the stubble on your chin when your razor’s broken

I love the way your lips get tighter when I compliment you

I love you

I love the way it feels to run my fingers through your hair when your head’s on my lap and we’re watching a dumb sci fi movie but I’m really just watching you

I love the way you look in yellow

I love you

 

Our love is strawberry bubble gum

and Christmas wreaths and holly

and bottle caps and newsprint ads

and gardening gloves when the backyard’s a blanket of snow

 

Our love is a yellow snowman on a hill

He’s made of amber but only in a way that makes him beautiful

He’s not a fossil, he’s alive, I promise you

 

Our love

is me chewing on the end of my pen

and stargazing at ten in the morning

while I think of you

 

Our love is sweet

Our love is yellow

Our love is amber