Monday Prompts 14: 'Spring is only a performance of reinvention'
May's theme: stillness
‘Another Spring’ by Natasha Rao
Another failed chance to vault froglike
into a new life. It’s pre-green, thinned
acrylic approximating watercolor,
and with a paintbrush I am pollinating
lemon trees, impersonating bees. Still
so far from honeyed. I couldn’t kill
a stinkbug, but somehow it was easy
to betray you. Ants swarmed
the semen-damp cl…
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