Sunflowers In a Covid Year

The sunflowers are heavy this year.
Gold has had iron added to it.
The fat round capitula
are seeded with a leaden density,
and bend to an inward gravity.
The great yellow florets are glorious
as ever, 
but the heliotropes
seem now to turn listlessly
and the sun is masked
as if veiled by some malady,
or a rumor of one.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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Delaney Avatar
March 29, 2022 at 12:23 PM
I like how you have captured the mood of the disastrous,insanely stupid time with the sunflower in a strange inward gravity.
Ashford Avatar
May 3, 2022 at 8:07 AM
Thanks very much for this warm review Suz.
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