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summer_jackel ([personal profile] summer_jackel) wrote2010-04-05 02:50 pm

Monday Morning

I would give you the poem that came to me
before my eyelids opened this morning.
it was three perfect, elegant lines.
Of course I'd forgotten them by the time I finally woke up.

Instead, there are
two mallard hens upended in a streamside ditch,
orange-webbed and quacking excitedly.

[identity profile] sophiedoph.livejournal.com 2010-04-06 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
I love the simple visual.

I wish it were napowrimo all year for you! :)

[identity profile] summer-jackel.livejournal.com 2010-04-06 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!!! And aww, that's a nice thing to say. :)

[identity profile] kynekh-amagire.livejournal.com 2010-04-06 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I sort of adore that ducks are your fallback imagery in the case of "I had something brilliant and evocative, but then I woke up all the way and promptly forgot it".

[identity profile] summer-jackel.livejournal.com 2010-04-06 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
hee hee. I think that it's important to have something like that in the case of a project like NaPo, and I can almost always write something about ducks.