This month, I continue writing posts from prompts in the Writing Down the Bones Card Deck by Natalie Goldberg, shared with me by my friend Barb Edler of Iowa. I’m continuing this month so that I can experience the entire deck of prompts. Today’s prompts asks us to tell everything we know about rutabagas and turnips and other vegetables, fruits, and objects often ignored.
A lot of people ignore mermaids, thinking they aren’t real. Let me tell you something: they are. There are tree spirits that explain the whole situation.
Mermaids Tricube
real mermaids
come ashore
in moonglow
ushering
sea turtle
wee hatchlings
to water ~
darkness-cloaked
protection
Common Threads 