The Change

      Behind a square stucco
      church (where daily there is
      praying) a buttercup
      lifts crookedly
5     its crown announcing
      by its nature
      the fall.  Little
      singing sacraments droop
      and drop down leaf
10    by leaf
      drawn to the ground
      by a force
      one opposite that
      which pulled the petals upward
15    yellow to heaven

 

From the collection "Youth Youth Youth"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

More information available on gregglory.com.