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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