Today's Napowrimo prompt has nicknames and more nicknames. I found two odd ones for flowers and went with it.
Goatsbeard and Beardtongue
herald the coming morningwith
yesterday's stubble present on the skin,
or lost in this morning's shavings.
rough, unblinking eyes. this
hunger. taste everything with
a mossfilm over top.
the bleating will continue
each morning. coming from the
ground, fighting another
persistant frost cast off from
winter's deathbed. breakfast
not quite thawed. heateduneven
and scouring the morning's microwaved
delights.
you were warned and still you persisted.
still you sought refuge from the soil.
all of this is your reward.
Brilliant names to riff on Leonard, and I love the thought of them with ‘stubble present on the skin or lost in this morning's shavings’.
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