"Now Hummus-Free"

I saw a palm

tree once

Let a tear slip

like in a trance

Sky frothy

Bubbling blue dreaming: of you.

A wooden sword

On deck

in the night

A place to cry

Alone, but with a hug

to give: to you.

Fans - green witches' fingers

in between

A love

A curse

Performing for blooms: for me.

Sun-teeth

Gnawing on tree-whiskers:

Shade.

And looking up is consensual this time

I can breathe, oranges and leaves.

In the middle

Day to its end does hold on

to worries, branches without permission

Going over metal

gates and acapella

Driving you to the gas station

Driving you home

that you never left

feeling like eternal summer

still eating hummus and carrots, you

gather yourself.

Find twigs, find pebbles

pine cones and basket needles with a scent of fall

that belongs on the ground and in the air and

never in a 'orange no.6" jar.

How do you do? Dry and hummus free

muddy to begin with and muddy still

with sweaters that pill

in berry,

contaminated with cat furs,

sweating pumpkin spices.

Grocery bags can have more than one life and you can, too!

Cats out of the bag.

You're it.

This is the last poem of my 25 Days of Poetry Challenge series! I decided to commit to creating daily word experiments for the month of October, and it’s finally over! I really can’t believe how time flew by! Weewuuu!/Bummer?...

It was honestly so much fun sometimes - a lot of the time - and definitely challenging for someone with a bad track record of sticking not with things! I actually learned so much about myself, how I work, and what can work if you, too, are called by the muses to word baking/landscaping.

Expect to hear more about the process of developing a consistent creative writing practice, tips that worked for me, and so much more in an upcoming story. Maybe you’ll be inspired to finally design a system that works for YOU. Maybe you’ll try the guinea pig thing like me for a few days and challenge yourself to make your own discoveries! Either way, I’d love to know about it! Find me on Instagram posting about witchcraft and all kinds of every day magic, and make sure to tag me @sb_insight if you’re so called by the poetry gods to take on #25daysofpoetry. Let’s gooooooo!