she heard tales about saving grapefruit skins for cooking

    she grew bright under the neon dragon of Chinatown

    she made saffron curry rice for friends

    she attended a barbecue in Amarillo， Texas

    she stepped around yellow piss in snow

    she cut herself on a Hawaiian pineapple

    she learned to name forsythia where it grew

    visions of ochre and citronella eluded her