Sunflower Strove With Hollyhock

Sunflower Strove with Hollyhock (After Donald Justice "First Death") Sunflower maize and pink-on-stalk two plants rising toward the sun-- a sunflower strives with hollyhock. Past noonday hour at one o'clock, no birds sing--no, not one. Sunflower maize and pink-on -stalk aglow in sunny noonday shock compete where streams of silver run. The sunflower strives with hollyhock in grasses nicely cleared of rock where other strivings now are done. Sunflower maize and pink-on-stalk both dressed in nature's modest frock don't seem to know they've both won; the sunflower strives with hollyhock. So wide it grows in front to block the sun--her grace it hopes to shun-- sunflower maize blocks pink-on-stalk. The sunflower strives with hollyhock.