4.4.13

Today's NaPoWriMo prompt: use the title of a spaceship from an Iain M. Banks novel as the title of your poem.  (Check out the "Day Four" post here http://www.napowrimo.net/ if you need more explanation).  My color prompt was brown...and this is fueled by the fact that Miss L had kindergarten round-up today.  So much converging creative energy...lovin'  NaPoWriMo April!

A Fine Disregard for Awkward Facts

Whoever said that hearts need

to be “Valentine colors” can bite me.

My girl crayons hearts the color of coffee,

daisies with two centers, green waterfalls,

and baby sister with butterfly wings.  At five years,

the rules don’t apply yet.  Facts don’t matter,

hard-and-fast by-laws are more like nifty ideas

but are, ultimately, disposable.

She will start school this fall:

she will be told the sky is blue,

the tree has green leaves, and baby can’t fly. I want

to color her with white crayon to resist

reality’s dipping, stubbornly rolling it off in fat 

droplets of “no way.”  I want her to think

in ripples of clear purple water, to

burn with pink-sparkle flames, to breathe

neon dandelion scent and sing bonesongs

in all shades of the color "want"--to

give all of THEM something to think about.