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Sunflowers<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n By<\/span>Callie Lau<\/strong>\n \n April 21, 2023<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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After an afternoon of absinthe and digitalis, Vincent Van Gogh<\/p>\n

Sways out of the harsh daylight into his saccharine sump<\/p>\n

Christened the Yellow House.<\/p>\n

His linen smelt of turpentine.<\/p>\n

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Small, wild, seedy pupils watched<\/p>\n

As he plastered their torsos without<\/p>\n

Limbs, sinuous, sinewless, and spineless.<\/p>\n

Then his Sunflowers spoke,<\/p>\n

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The yellow paint is tempting.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I know people talk and I know they talk in whispers<\/em><\/p>\n

And with their eyes too<\/em><\/p>\n

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Just another sacred stroke of impasto<\/em><\/p>\n

Would it taste like ecstasy?<\/em><\/p>\n

A guzzle of the gnarly night\u2019s gargoyle moon<\/em><\/p>\n

Would it burn off God\u2019s salivating seethe?<\/em><\/p>\n

A swill of supple teeth and stiff rum, a crusty chaser of an engorged paint tube<\/em><\/p>\n

Would it taste like brie and wet dreams?<\/em><\/p>\n

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His overcooked eyes glazed<\/p>\n

Flaxen like a chewy egg yolk.<\/p>\n

They blend and bloom in the plagued fields<\/p>\n

Of jaundiced petals and pigmented pus.<\/p>\n

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The yellow paint is tempting.<\/em><\/p>\n

I think we\u2019ll be just fine.<\/em><\/p>\n

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He cradles his floral clippers<\/p>\n

They will be voiceless like God\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

He had painted his tongue saffron.<\/p>\n

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The rivers of Arles are full of skeletons<\/em><\/p>\n

When will the pink elephants join the herd, Vincent?<\/em><\/p>\n

The pigeons your prostitute fed have all flown and hit the bloody roofs<\/em><\/p>\n

When will you, Vincent?<\/em><\/p>\n

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The mellow pain is tempting.<\/p>\n

He slices the node waiting to hear it thud\u2026<\/p>\n

It falls quiet like a pulp, like a pulp beaten into fiction.<\/p>\n

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Muzzle for eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Callie Lau<\/strong> is an interdisciplinary storyteller, painter, and singer-songwriter. Currently, Callie is an undergraduate student at USC pursuing a Narrative Studies BA with a minor in Music Industry, and is a member of the cinema fraternity, Delta Kappa Alpha. Inspired by her favorite artists Sylvia Plath, FKA Twigs, and Michelangelo, Callie imbues her poetry with incongruous aesthetics and the transgressive power of femininity. Her recent single and music video, \u201cTragedies in July,\u201d can be found on Spotify and YouTube.<\/p>\n

You can follow Callie on Instagram<\/a> and Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2023","tag-poetry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSunflowers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/spring-2023\/sunflowers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sunflowers - Palaver Arts Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/spring-2023\/sunflowers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Palaver Arts Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/palaver.arts.magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-04-21T07:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-29T00:54:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2023\/06\/palaver-logo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"710\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"198\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"akcannon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/spring-2023\/sunflowers\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/spring-2023\/sunflowers\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"akcannon\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/palaver\/#\/schema\/person\/8ac801b3c8176b6860207b43ecbe9e78\"},\"headline\":\"Sunflowers\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-21T07:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-29T00:54:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/spring-2023\/sunflowers\/\"},\"wordCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/palaver\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Poetry\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Issue 13: Spring 2023\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/spring-2023\/sunflowers\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/spring-2023\/sunflowers\/\",\"name\":\"Sunflowers - 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