Added 23 June 2003
Slowly desiccating on the ground Most things travel upward in the summer, Only flowers fall.
in the warming days of April
the ebbing of their lives is accelerated
by the earlier rising sun
which claims their color for his own,
which he then displays at the end of the day.
arms raised skyward in praise,
waves of heat off the desert floor,
life to higher elevations.
And they . . .
Helios will return to earth
in spring with all his borrowed color.
Written 25 April 2003
at La Casa Cordova, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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