earth note 520

  

    photo by Sandra L Hazley

   highway 36 kansas

  no apologies

  for a back road
  and a field of sunflower sutras
  they started as wild flowers
  along the shoulders
  until they discovered
  the farmers
  
  since then
  every town makes a point
  of exclamation
  for their particular shade of gold
  wrapping 'round brown cores
  like the earth itself
  without grease & machinery

  the rain comes

  in deliberate beats
  like a chant
  passing mouth to mouth
  between the stems
  a field of flower
  echoes

  --- e b bortz