The Butterfly Hours Memoir Project: RICE (poem)

For 2019 I'm running a year-long series on my blog in which I share my responses to the writing assignment prompts found in THE BUTTERLY HOURS by Patty Dann.

I welcome you to join me, if you like! I've divided the prompts by month, and the plan is to respond to 3 (or so) a week. For some of these I may write poems, for others prose. The important thing is to mine my memory. Who knows where this exploration will lead?

For links to the prompts I've written on so far this year, please click on The Butterfly Hours tab above.

This month's prompts are pipe, playground, prayers, recipes, ribbon, rice, road, saltwater, sandwich, school, sewing.

RICE

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white rice

because it's unassuming

brown rice

because it's bold

wild rice

for its peaks and valleys

Jasmine rice

for the way it perfumes

the evening

Basmati rice

for its the way

it sings of forests

yellow rice

because saffron

is a river that flows

both sweet and savory

black rice

because it's really purple

black rice because

it's forbidden

black rice

because of that place

on the coast

where I first shared

black-rice sushi

with you

- Irene Latham