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Ode to a Sunflower
by Sophia Falco
In outer-space a strong
sunflower floats in orbit,
and a lovely astronaut
sprinkles joy
on this sunflower.
The sunflower’s seeds light up,
in a yellow spiral,
one by one,
rapidly!
Beams of light
radiate out from each seed,
and the petals pulsate with
power.
(Flashes of gold in the
realm of dark matter.)
These beams of light reach
the earth coated in a blanket of black,
cutting through the darkness;
zigzagging like lightening.
Oh, how the sunflower shakes its head like a
lion shakes its mane and showers
yellow pollen that
floats, drifts, and coats
the darkness ever so
gracefully with gold ,
like a rain that reaches earth.
A sunflower bringing
joy into this dark world!
Sophia Falco is a poet whose work has been published in Inside the Bell Jar and in The Mindful Word. She is also a photographer whose work has been published in the Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, The Esthetic Apostle, and featured on the cover of Tilde: A Literary Journal. Sophia studies literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In her free time she is an epic gardener. The tallest sunflower she grew was sixteen feet tall.
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