Lotus Wake-Up

Notice Poems—A National Poetry Month poem series by author Holly Thompson relating to the verse novel Falling Into the Dragon’s Mouth, set in Kamakura, Japan. #NoticePoems

Lotus Wake-Up

lotus roots that sleptin cold mud all winterare nudged awake rinsed and readiedfor planting in the temple’s big clay pots
to sprout aerial leafbowls that catch rainin silver jewels, bloom, and seed with pods that if dried will rattlerattle when shaken

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Notice Poems—A National Poetry Month poem series by author Holly Thompson relating to the verse novel Falling Into the Dragon’s Mouth, set in Kamakura, Japan. 
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