exercise from Ordinary Genius.
name some of the objects around you: a bamboo plant, bag of corn chips, futon, wind chimes, sofa, kitchen table, wicker basket full of shoes, water glass.
pick two of those objects: bamboo houseplant, wind chimes.
the first object is in love with the second object. write about that love.
the view from the windowsill
i think about going outside and
rooting myself in a pond
submerging and holding fast
to the sand, gently
bobbing,
spray salting my new leaves
until I have grown so green
and tall that my new leaves
are too high
for all but the highest tides.
or
walking out this door and
growing, deep down on a rocky hill my
roots searching, wiggling
to get established in some sunny spot hugged
by shade giving stones.
every day
i would bend with the arc of the sun
listen to birds
watch the other plants flower
and every day think
about physics and befriend crickets
to keep the nights
from becoming as endless as my memories of you
languid in the breeze
would be if i walked
out this door
and went outside.
