Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of young adult novels in verse, including The Surrender Tree, which received the first Newbery Honor ever awarded to a Latino. Her most recent book is Hurricane Dancers, the First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck.
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boulder
the rock art
of lichens
Brings back memories of when I would look at lichens under a magnifying glass to study these tiny growths. And this huge bolder in my backyard that was transformed into a huge rock garden.
hello margarita, once again you have shown there is an abundance of haiku moments ready to be discovered.
i love the contrast of strength, using the boulder, and of fragility, using the lichen.
then, you present us with compatibility, that which must exist within the lichen, the co-existance between the fungus and the alga, for the lichen to be formed; akin to a subplot, then we have the by-production, art.
margarita, yes, all in a moment, from your words, we experience this rarity in nature.
margarita, your knowing me, you know there is the possibility of a “however”.
“boulder
the rock art
of lichens”
with this fragmentation, i get the impression “boulder ” is the “art work of the lichen”.
with an additional word or two, this misconception would be less likely to take place, and we’d truly have a turning point, rather than a continuation.
within a package of words, their usage can misconstrue
boulder
the rock art
of lichens
Brings back memories of when I would look at lichens under a magnifying glass to study these tiny growths. And this huge bolder in my backyard that was transformed into a huge rock garden.
hi Margarita,
this is lovely, am getting an image of hummingbirds
and blue-gray gnatcatcher gathering litchen, for
there nests.
best wishes
hello margarita, once again you have shown there is an abundance of haiku moments ready to be discovered.
i love the contrast of strength, using the boulder, and of fragility, using the lichen.
then, you present us with compatibility, that which must exist within the lichen, the co-existance between the fungus and the alga, for the lichen to be formed; akin to a subplot, then we have the by-production, art.
margarita, yes, all in a moment, from your words, we experience this rarity in nature.
margarita, your knowing me, you know there is the possibility of a “however”.
“boulder
the rock art
of lichens”
with this fragmentation, i get the impression “boulder ” is the “art work of the lichen”.
with an additional word or two, this misconception would be less likely to take place, and we’d truly have a turning point, rather than a continuation.
within a package of words, their usage can misconstrue
This is interesting & i am glad to see it. However i think it would be even better either rearranged or with a bit more detail.
piebald evening skies –
children’s grey mud
covered hands
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