The Sunflower Chronicles
Straphangers
Sunflowers cram into the morning bus,
they unfold yellow newspapers
and droop their heads reading over
each other's shoulder.
Sunflowers
They crowd about me
as I open to the Gospel,
their yellow heads
wait for that moment
when Jesus speaks
and only as they can,
bow their heads
in prolonged adoration.
The Countenance of a Sunflower
She leans towards the Virgin Mary
her yellow Stole swept back,
two Queens in an earthly garden,
one hastening to the other
in a peaceful acquiescence to radiance.
William G. Davies, Jr. is the 2013 Poet Laureate of Perry County, Pennsylvania.
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