The Butterfly Hours Memoir Project: RICE

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


white ricebecause it's unassuming
brown rice because it's bold
wild ricefor its peaks and valleys
Jasmine ricefor the way it perfumesthe evening
Basmati ricefor its the way it sings of forests
yellow ricebecause saffronis a river that flowsboth sweet and savory
black ricebecause it's really purple
black rice becauseit's forbidden
black rice because of that place on the coastwhere I first sharedblack-rice sushiwith you

- Irene Latham