Another little snippet I got from an exercise at the teachers' workshop on the Eastern Shore. This one took me a while to tweak to the point that I liked it. It began as an exercise in choosing something from nature that you think represents yourself, though it's evolved away from that through all my tweaking. Amusingly, about two-thirds of the workshop decided they were trees. I wonder why?
Trees reach out over water,
bending over, looking in.
The bay below ripples, distorting
branches twisted and fat,
signs of past, genes, history, weather.
Amorphous shapes shift and height changes
with the shadows and the angle
of the sun. Green and alive
or an illusion of algae and the time of day
with their eyeless, senseless knots,
they cannot know, but they bend to see.
Posted by Meagan M. on July 18, 2008
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