CATEGORY: Before & After

{Clue: A Blake & Ginsberg Mashup}

Ah!
Sunflower

 weary of time

Who countest the steps of the sun

Seeking after that sweet golden clime

Look at the Sunflower

he said

[The tots LOVE seeing the sunflowers grow a little bit more each day!]

leaves stuck out like arms out of the stem

gestures from the sawdust root
broke pieces of plaster
fallen out of the black twigs

a dead fly in its ear.

Unholy battered old thing you were

my sunflower

O my soul

I loved you then!

A perfect beauty of a sunflower!

a perfect

excellent

lovely

sunflower existence!

 a sweet natural eye

there was a dead gray shadow against the sky

big as a man

sitting

dry on top of a pile of ancient sawdust.

and the gray Sunflower

poised against the sunset

crackly bleak and dusty

with the smut and smog and smoke

of olden locomotives in its eye.

to the new hip moon

woke up alive and excited

grasping in the sunset shadow sunrise golden monthly breeze!

Any Guesses?

The Before & After Answer Is:

Ah! Sunflower Sutra

a combination of

 William Blake's

Ah! Sunflower

&

Allen Ginsberg's

Sunflower Sutra

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows follow behind you."
~ Maori Proverb