Afternoon Peace
©July 4th, 2018
By Vijaya Sundaram
Hollyhocks shout defiance at the sun
Leaning out like cheerleaders
From their shaded spot, reaching up,
Purple-red and rich with earth-food,
While chocolate-mint leaves cluster
Lustful, profligate, at their feet.
Water from the hose sprays
Down like a benediction in the heat,
And a sigh ripples river-like,
Or like a breeze, through the wanton garden
Green and open with flowers and possibility.
This is where I find peace
And cessation of thought,
A kind of holiness,
A kind of wholeness.
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