CLINGING TO THE SUNFLOWER HOUR

 

CLINGING TO THE SUNFLOWER HOUR

Clinging to the sunflower hour

I make my case to still live in the sun

Until my sunflower clock is run

And on my stalk to smile and wave

At the unceasing bright parade

Of cornstalks under a Kansas sky.

Who am I to afford such glory

Even a field of sunflowers seen through a train window

Speeding by has caught In the honeyed lattice

Of my mind

And will not let me go from so many years ago

I am on sunflower time

Oh Lord, I plea in sunflower rhyme

Oh Lord of the sunflowers

Cherish me.

As you do them.

To have made them with such a cheering heart.

mary angela douglas 1 april 2024