Wednesday Morning
all the construction workers running about trying
to wrap it all up & i’m in my black car stopped
sitting smackdab in a construction zone next to
summer beaten cornfields showing their rust
yellow browning tassels silks & stalks to my
left a solid baker’s dozen of volunteer sun-
flowers creamy to bright gold circling mahogany &
flowing seamlessly into green & at the ground
below them are twice as many pale-blue bronze
rose deep-purple irises in a roadside ditch
sudden rain causing
distortion— imagine
a van gogh
About the Author: Victor Clevenger spends his days in a Madhouse and his nights writing. Selected pieces of his work have appeared in print magazines and journals around the world. He is the author of several collections of poetry including A Finger in the Hornets’ Nest (Red Flag Poetry, 2018), Corned Beef Hash By Candlelight (Luchador Press, 2019), A Wildflower In Blood (Roaring Junior Press, 2020), Scratching to Get By (Between Shadows Press, 2021), and 47 Poems (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2022). Together with American poet John Dorsey, they run River Dog.
Image Credit: Chase Dimock “Sunflower” (2021)
As It Ought To Be 