A No Brainer

From RLB

Prompt 1: Write a nature poem. This can about how much you love or hate nature. It can be optimistic or not so. You can write about global warming or about that time when a deer walked up so close you could almost pet it. I'll leave the specifics up to you, but it should be about nature.



Naming

"and then awakening naked
to be tattooed by the rivers"
---Pablo Neruda


Rivers all leave their mark
as easily as ink---
your pink flesh stamped
blue-green forever,
colors shifting in the sunlight
turning muddy brown
when your mind
is troubled with grief.

The pain of the rivers' needle
will never fade. Each prick,
10,000 tiny stabs, will all
prove unique, seperate pains
& while you lay beneath the stars
rubbing the place they claimed,
the rivers will call to you
& you will remember their many names.