Sunflower Summer
That summer had
a face like a sunflower
mane of yellow
hair framing circle of tan
Clytie watching
Apollo kiss her sister beside the coal bin
in the back of a
three-car garage
In Takeshi
Kitano’s Hana-Bi
“flower fires” create and consume
Horibe painting
smiling flower heads on lions
bending upward
toward hana-bi hung in the sky
like Romero’s Land of the Dead
flowers in the
graveyard
not the kind you
lay on the ground
sky flowers way
up in heaven
reflecting off a
paddle boat
in the center of
Duck Lake
and those
chipped teeth
moving to face
the sun
distracting
decoys planted in a line
their thick
stalks confront the wind
seeds weakening growth
like Clytie’s sister
locked in a cave
or
planted in loose
soil behind the Buick
Clytie turning
slowly
Her flower face following
Apollo’s dazzling
chariot and radiant crown
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