Yellow Dresses

Yellow Dresses is a sequence of Sapphic-style poems, each with the same refrain, by DJ Tyrer, published in its entirety in Yellow Leaves 1 from Atlantean Publishing. The sequence details incidents in the lives of two girls, or in the lives of a multiplicity of girls, named Camilla and Cassilda, who might be sisters, lovers, mother and daughter or totally unrelated. The poems are :

• Street Scene
• Kinship
• Life Story
• Sisters
• Names
• Hate
• Masks
• Decadence
• Desire
• Parasol
• Innocence
• Perfection
• Death
• Graveyard
• Memories
• Dollhouse
• Unbegotten
• Dreams
• Photographs
• Portrait