I've been following my extremely talented artist sister (@KirstiRingger on Instagram)—her drawing contributions to #Inktober this month are off the charts. I'm late to the game, but decided that I'd use the daily prompts to write something instead of draw, for the last 10 days of the month. My "ink" pictures will be of my very hasty, daily drafts! Today's prompt: #TREASURE. There is a tree that I've been in love with for years, so I decided to write about her specifically. Harlequin GlorybowerAs if it weren’t enough
that in late summer she blooms white fragrant stars, mocking jasmine, extending trembling threads of stamens, blushing shy pink underneath-- As if it weren’t enough that, when bruised, her hand-sized, heart-shaped, hair-soft leaves emit the smell of peanut butter (what insouciance in the face of injury)-- As if it weren’t enough that when her flowers drop, each waxy calyx hardens into a fuchsia tiara, a pointed pink collar-- As if that weren’t enough, inside each crown, She’s Placed The Treasure: a perfect, indigo pearl, an autumn jewel replacing every summer flower, A transaction in the inky currency of winter’s tongue.
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