Tuesday, March 22, 2016

The streets all end in leaf

The streets all end in leaf
   
    in our neighborhood: Palmleaf, Littleleaf, and our street, Starleaf. If the streets are
    branches, the houses are leaves. If the streets are leaves, the houses are its veins, its
    across-the-palm creases.

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  1. reading these fragments each day, feels like watching you the writer leaf out and bloom as you find your writing self still there, changed but awake and looking around at this new world where you are mom

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    1. It feels like that from the inside, too!! Thank you for reading and for your sweet (and insightful) thoughts...

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