Banana Leaves
By: Rose Hunter
Category: Language Place Blog Carnival, Mexico, palm trees, pics with poems attached, plant mosaics, Sayulita, spaceships
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| Focal Length: | 12.4mm |
| ISO: | 50 |
| Shutter: | 1/250 sec |
| Camera: | KODAK P850 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA |
against the grey sky they are
giant chartreuse loofahs
and I want to pick one
cavort in it, strumpet-like
green, so clearly his color
although of course when we first met
I said orange or red
but now I know, peridot lion
banana leaves are stamped
caution: fragile: forget it: the world
don’t work that way, he says
and money don’t buy you brains
to which I say, good
‘cause both of those went out
with the last of the empties
but, banana leaves
are to wrap things in
like bodies and fears
or, as diaphanous butter knives
they are to block light,
partially, and be shone through
partially, to look up and see, partially
as Lilliputian, beetle; fungus.
* This poem originally appeared in The Toronto Quarterly, issue 7.
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I like the images you paint in this poem, like this one: ‘banana leaves are to wrap things in like bodies and fears’. And the photo suggests that wrapping one’s fears into that banana leaf could truly be possible, it’s so green and calming and large … Love it.
Thank you Brigita! I would like to wrap myself in one this morning. But there are none right near my house; I have to go slightly further afield….
Thank you for doing such a great job with the blog carnival. :)