I'm talking about the sunflowers I see each year, which go straight up
towards the light
L
On 16 December 2015 at 22:59, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I like 'a distance', L but 'straight as sunflowers' throws me. The petals,
> the stalks? Probably just me but I think of Van Gogh' sunflowers which are
> berzerk curly or is that what you intend with the image, given wobbles in
> final stanza?
>
> Bill
>
> On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > Her hands, between prayer and defence,
> >
> > part to succumb to decency;
> >
> > arms go to her side, hands below.
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> >
> >
> > Her eyes contract with no one.
> >
> > She looks into a distance,
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> > fingers straight as sunflowers
> >
> >
> >
> > downwards to the centre of the earth;
> >
> > but she wobbles on the balls of her feet,
> >
> > tense, marking time.
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