Challenge
Appreciation and Discovery
Nature is all around us. Write about discovering something within nature that you haven't noticed before or just appreciating nature in general. Write about discovering a new way to look at people and learn from their imperfections.
When the doctor confirmed you had cancer for the first time,
mom and I were driving the two hours home from Lincoln.
I asked her to pull over to the side of the road.
The windshield wipers could hardly keep up with the rain
and each word that left her mouth fell limp in the air.
When you called last week to tell me it had returned,
I could hear mom’s voice in my own
and I opened my bedroom window to the
negative temperatures of winter to keep
my words from pooling themselves around my feet.
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