Your Dappled, Yellow Hair

I first fell for your dappled, yellow hair:

Gold and pine and shoulder-soft,

Fine and fair and speckled silk,

Cream and lemon and mushroom.

Boastful buttercups in fullest sunlight,

Sumptuous ochre, mustard and tan,

Bashful egg yolks on flashing sand,

Buff, ivory and starving flame.

Honey rich and chickpea yellow,

Daffodils bursting in the glorious sun,

Spring and Summer and barley corn,

Meet and dance, and melt and sleep

Through your dappled, yellow hair.