Xerophilous

 

NaPoWriMo – day 25
and for Brenda’s Sunday Wordle: cheap, tissue, pinwheels, diminished, creep, eternal, tattoos, steal, quenching, replenish, piquant, squeeze, sharp

 

Card 118, Gallery 2

Xerophilous

… I wondered if only plants could be xerophilous
     or if people could be, too.

A Northern Light
__  Jennifer Donnelly

Knows she can survive
in sometimes dry tissue
thin environment where
words are cheap, lack
any but surface meaning.

Not diminished by squeezed
existence, she creeps quietly
away, stealing moments here,
and there, in order to replenish
soul’s eternal need for deeper
sense of being.

Thoughts released, become
piquant pinwheels seeking
to quench her thirst for ever
more knowledge. Rippling
rainbow tattoos seen only
by inner eye well-trained in
finding vague connections
of color, shape and form.

Awareness, once again sharpened,
she knows this to be her Normal.

Elizabeth Crawford  4/25/11

Notes: The word xerophilous means adapted to drought, able to live, survive in dry regions. Although it refers to plants, I, like the main character in the book quoted above, thought it could easily apply to people as well.

I did use all thirteen words in Brenda’s wordle, which can be found here :
http://sundaywhirl.blogspot.com/2011/04/bakers-dozen-1.html?showComment=1303649993824#c6579131947839191055

Soul Cards: both galleries may be viewed by clicking on the image. The Soul Cards were created by Deborah Koff-Chapin, and her site may be found here:  http://www.touchdrawing.com/