Open your eyes more widely.

Almost.

Try this.

Close your eyes.

Breathe deeply.

Now open.

Everything becomes just a little brighter – a little more yellow.

Yellow, the color of sunshine and daffodils.

Yes, you can close your eyes again.

Rest.

Summer is here now.

Heat almost more than you can take.

Certainly more than you want.

It will be gone soon.

Yellow will return.

Do you remember the poets you loved?

Find them.

Then will you see the yellow through the heat. The red and orange heat.

They will hold your hand until spring returns again.

Find them in the first glimpse of sunset.

Find them in the butterfly that rests on the Saguaro blossoms.

Find me in the little umbrella that she twirls.