Long Way Home For Sunflowers

A regiment of sunflower golden disks Turns heads Assembled all summer for the daily Love ambush Upon the five o’clock rush At the I-496 interchange Home Of pizza joints hotels and gas pumps Who had the last laugh? To plant in the highway construction zone with public money This patch of bumblebee bonnets? Whoever you are you restored my faith Now Under the October sky that’s held no sun Not even for a single day A type of autumn jewelry robbery The crumpled sunflowers Give up and fall face-first into the mud Get back on one knee With a wonder if any soul ever did see Their trance upon the shining orb’s Coming and going? Yes, yes I did! Every exhausting end of the day! I want to park my car on the ecliptic ramp Fall from my tires and bend with the dying flowers Faceless all of us Reassure ourselves Light is still up there somewhere traveling Hidden as it is Like another light perpetually cycling From root to heart to crown Earth to forest seas to heaven The sun abound again and again.