Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Sunflower Summer: A Tribute to Takeshi Kitano and George Romero

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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