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He painted first the flowers

then the sun.

Your bowl of blossoms

delivered at the door

marked "grown in Ecuador"

have petals pointing

every which way

on a cloudy raining day.

But just as Van Gogh's painting

might, these sunflowers

cast their own light.

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