The Picture of Little G.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
- The Picture of Little G.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
Beyond the hill a gatheringof eggplant-grays is fraughtwith volts and latheringwhile background elms blow tautand molten in the spill.
Seeming almost to admirethe child among them, these blossoms nodtheir puny lightning rodsand lean into his laplike fingers toward a fire.
They are not real flowers though.They're flytrapswith open mouthsso petal-pink they echoorchids in their blowze.
The year-old boy, in overallsand ball cap, squinchesup his face to caterwauland mauls awayat the anthology of pinches.
He has no history to keephim calm before a throngof rabid hazards. He's a child.The winds are strong. The hill is steepand the perspective long. [End Page 53]
George David Clark's honors include the Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship at Colgate Universty and the Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship at Valparaiso University where he currently teaches literature and creative writing. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Believer, Pleiades, and The Yale Review, and can be found online at The Missouri Review, Verse Daily, and Poetry Daily. He is the editor of 32 Poems."
