Guyana: Chemical Yellow · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“My Irish ‘auntie’ remember.  She been napping that Thursday afternoon, windows open to let in blueness, sky, sea-wind.  Thick chemical choke she dreams.  She pelt out o’ she bed to shut windows”: Guyana-Gyal tries to figure out why all the trees, plants and vegetables look so…yellow.