mood: excited | drinking: nope
I’m minutes from leaving on a jet plane, headed off to Illinois for a baby shower my Mom is throwing for me.
But before I go, here’s a little update… the latest poem in what’s becoming known as the “Fruits & Veggies series” because the title of each poem corresponds to the fruit or vegetable that most resembles the size of the little one.
This week’s veggie is an English hot-house cucumber, according to BabyCenter.com. I have no idea what an English hot-house cucumber looks like, actually, but I’m assuming it’s on the large side, as cucumbers go.
Last week’s vegetable was a Rutabaga, and here it is, in sevenling form:
Rutabaga
We are busy making room for you, redefining
our borders and relegating sharp objects
to the safety of high shelves and dark corners.
But it seems there is not enough room for my spleen,
and my gall bladder also has been displaced, small
squishy organs summarily relocated
by the push of my ever-expanding heart.
*****
-Lo, who has a boarding call.
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