Happy Birthday Bush

March 18, 2010
The last of the assignments from Creative Writing 238 (which I passed with a resounding A). Instructed to stroll about campus in teams of four and find objects out of place. I found a birthday streamer under a bush.


Birthday streamers
     damp from dew and rain
     draped about the ground around me,
     clinging to the earth
          like a sheer silk nighty,
     mingling with my roots,
     becoming one with the mulch:

          carelessly planned,
but I do appreciate the thought.