The Yellow Songbird

She loved to wear yellow, and she had a habit of touching plant leaves as she walked past them, as if she were saying "hello."  Whenever it rained, she would race for her umbrella and go stand in a puddle beneath the smudgy sky.  If she had lost her umbrella, it was all the better, because then she could spin in circles with her arms forming a horizontal pinwheel.  The force of the spinning would carry her into the air and she would sing a harmony to the melody of the plopping raindrops, drowning the sound of her mother's scream for her to come down.