#322 - (Re)cycle
Chinese Zodiac
Yin-
Sarah meets Michael in a small diner outside of Topeka (he, working a Masters in Agriculture and Business; she, out on a gap year from her horticultural studies, already planning to drop out) and she doesn't tell him she knocked the coffee over on purpose for another six months.
Wood-
They grow together slowly, still half caught up in the crazed rush of college, buoyed and bounced along by big dreams, but also, in the soft, silent places, whispering of a simple, homely life, of small towns and happy communities, of a safe haven for future children.
Ox-
Silently she curses a weakness of the flesh beyond her control or responsibility, a quirk of genetics, of biology and chemistry, that strips her of her strength and skill and slaves her to rainbow racks of pharmaceutical products that dim the tide but do not, can not stop it; silently, she curses; but she will not stop singing to her darling boy.
Metal-
Sarah tastes copper as she falls, burnt up, burnt out, running on empty so long she's even out of fumes and now, in the hollow space, drawn out, spread, conducted away, she thinks, wildly, life for life, and knows no more.
Monkey-
Michael had always wished for a son.
Yin-
Sarah meets Michael in a small diner outside of Topeka (he, working a Masters in Agriculture and Business; she, out on a gap year from her horticultural studies, already planning to drop out) and she doesn't tell him she knocked the coffee over on purpose for another six months.
Wood-
They grow together slowly, still half caught up in the crazed rush of college, buoyed and bounced along by big dreams, but also, in the soft, silent places, whispering of a simple, homely life, of small towns and happy communities, of a safe haven for future children.
Ox-
Silently she curses a weakness of the flesh beyond her control or responsibility, a quirk of genetics, of biology and chemistry, that strips her of her strength and skill and slaves her to rainbow racks of pharmaceutical products that dim the tide but do not, can not stop it; silently, she curses; but she will not stop singing to her darling boy.
Metal-
Sarah tastes copper as she falls, burnt up, burnt out, running on empty so long she's even out of fumes and now, in the hollow space, drawn out, spread, conducted away, she thinks, wildly, life for life, and knows no more.
Monkey-
Michael had always wished for a son.