A sketch pad’s pages
lay ruffled by the breath
of the March wind.
Art had been forgotten
in the lure of bare toed warmth.
She desired to do more than
simply draw nature….
Be it thorn’s blood letting
or the twisted ivy on the stone wall,
she wanted to feel life against her palms.
Later she would deal with the
stout stemmed foot tapping of Mrs. Shallow
who thought indigo leaves on parchment
were preferred to dirt beneath the fingernails.
Too long she had been housed behind
the walls of Bergamot’s School for Young Women.
Lessons in prim and proper may help her climb a social
ladder,
but making daisy chains in a meadow blessed her soul.
©Susie Clevenger 2013
At Real Toads we were provided a botanical list of words for our in
sketch, screen, march, snowberry, elder, tawny, bergamot, meadow, ivy, stout-stemmed, cluster, zigzag, shunning, shallow, thorns, sapling, leave, twisted, indigo, adaptations
sketch, screen, march, snowberry, elder, tawny, bergamot, meadow, ivy, stout-stemmed, cluster, zigzag, shunning, shallow, thorns, sapling, leave, twisted, indigo, adaptations
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Great interview feature at Real Toads ~
Be it thorn’s blood letting
or the twisted ivy on the stone wall,
she wanted to feel life against her palms.
YES. Goodness, yes. Fantastic.
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