A concrete garden sprouts on Route Nineteen
lush with weeds, moss, and plants,
fertilized with sewage waste,
and ripe with the smog of exhaust fumes.
A lonely sunflower grows in a concrete garden
on Route Nineteen, out of a sewer
full of unwanted plants
in a roadside garden.
A strip of sunlight shines on a lonely sunflower
as it struggles to survive
in a highway haven on Route Nineteen
against the odds of a polluted sky.
A looming cloud blocks a strip of sunlight
from feeding a flower
in attempts to water
a concrete garden on Route Nineteen.
The pavement on Route Nineteen provides
a special sort of environment
which allows a sunflower to flourish
alongside the weeds in a sewer
on the side of the road.
This thing is messing up the alignment and I can't fix it.
ReplyDeleteI saw a flower growing out of a sewer on the way to work last week and I've been trying to write about it ever since. It was so cool.
I think I could probably write something better than this about the sunflower, but I haven't been able to come up with anything else.
I'm not sure of the title either.