all flowers in time bend towards the sun.

the seven-foot sunflowers are so huge and pregnant-looking that my mom needs to tie them back. their heads fall down, like some long-necked bird. and every year, they dwarf everything else in the yard... this means september is here. i remember reading somewhere that if you dream of sunflowers, you are sharing in a native past... that you are part native american, or were in another life, i don't remember.

(posted 04.01.10. drafted 09.09.09)