Sunflower

[PaulFowler]

Does anyone have, or know where to find, the entirity of the poem 'Sunflower', featured in Penguin Modern Poets and Crucifix in a Deathhand? I have only read the small section Jules Smith quotes in Art, Survival and so Forth and I'm curious to read more...

 

[ROC]

SUNFLOWER

The bird time of honey
bangs hello
we are going everywhere into the
SKY
now
without
grief or criticism.

good night
sea elephant
good night
Greta Garbo
good night
steam shovel
good night
spaghetti and beer
good night
insomnia
good night
toy trains
good night
beer in green cans
good night
mother
good night
Mr. America
good night
grass seed.

flying over Detroit
I am orange juice
and tree ripened mandarins,
and I am
neat enough
stretched out on sunlight's
nervetips (without bedpans).

my name was..........

yours?

we were sick a long time,
a very long time -
2000 years
almost.

 

[the only good poet]

that's fairly definitive.

 

[Joseph K]

That's a great piece and new to me. Thanks!

 

[Gerard K H Love]

ROC You rock. nice poem.