Riddle me this, kid:
This little riddle kid
next to a scrap can
sleeping on a lid.
A half protected
little girl
cresting on
a sea of garbage.
Now the question is,
can thoughts from
a prayer world
produce a pearl
from heartache?
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I started this blog after moving to northern New Mexico from coastal North Carolina. Feeling the loss of my creative community, I started posting works in progress as a way to push myself forward and connect with other writers and painters.
For the first eight months or so I offered original narrative images as weekly image prompt for writers. The Storybook Collaborative pages document the collaborations.
Sadly - for I have enjoyed the adventure, and meeting so many interesting, creative souls - keeping the blog has has taken a back seat to sleep, family, work obligations and the birth of our Mountain daughters. I'd like to get back to it and still hope to one day. Until such time I am delighted by your visit and hope you will leave a comment and come back for more.
mine enemy grows older 
My answer to the question would be: of course!
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only if the kid is Chinese and works for a pearl processing company.
serious questions though: why is the girl half-protected? as in the shell the oyster is found in? is the lid a metaphor for anything?
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Is anyone more than half protected? I suppose this was a prayer that the child would survive as a thing of beauty, inside and out, no matter the hardship or cruelty she would encounter in life.
Last night I was reading some of the 16th (?) century Japanese travel commentary of Basho, the haiku master. He remarks of seeing a two year old child abandoned by the roadside, naked and crying. He supposes that the parents probably thought she would not last longer than the morning dew. He tossed her a bit of food as he passed.
Although I wrote the poem long before I read Basho’s note, I was struck by the similarity of our responses to similar circumstances. He tossed bread, I tossed a prayer and a poem. Maybe he didn’t know what else to do, either.
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