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IV (Naomi Shihab Nye)
IV (Naomi Shihab Nye)
2020

IV
by Naomi Shihab Nye

This year I'll write with Ash.
Next year, peaches.

Pale yellow butterfly
darts among charred
manzanita stalks.

And the story, the story it tells?
is yellow.