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Tue Feb-10-09 07:32 AM
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Sunflower
Before my desires with their impossible hues, before the first wings
descend, I remember you remembered me even when I was silent—
my body a tarnished pendulum in a field of other mourners,
dark-pitted hearts. The grossbeaks would pluck an eye
and another eye, their taking a plumed rape
communal and harsh as light glimmering on bladed stalks.
I felt your hands bear my losses, you became
a gold thread pulling. By slow degrees my face turned.
Karen Rigby
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So nice. We planted sunflowers a few years ago (not that we had any room, mind you.) This reminds of me of how my son used to reach up and tug on them so he could "look them in the face."
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