Leaf- Daily Object Writing- Dec 21
Dec 20th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Daily WritingGreen veins reach out from a central artery supplying the nutrients of photosynthesis. The leaf a miniature repetition of the tree; a trunk and branches. Falling in autumn onto the ground, golds and browns dot silver asphalt, and collect in gutters, get swept along by autumn rains and gather in corners then start to rot, going a gluggy black brown which smells of rotting vegetation. In winter they freeze into lumps as hard as coal and crunch under foot. In summer when hot northerly breezes sing through the city loose leaves swirl and dance like ballerinas. Caught in corners of quadrangles the wind pushes them back into the air to their rightful place. Those hot winds that make us pant for water, our tongues hanging half out our mouths, hot winds that make us wipe our brows to feel streams of dripping sweat. Hot winds that bring dry humidity that fills every room in the house with a barometric explosion trigger crushing us like a football crowd trying to exit a big game.
It’s funny being in a crowd at a game, a small island like a lost leaf among the sea of scarves and beanies and shouting commited followers who are cemented to their passion for the team. Their shouts shoot like bullets ‘Umpire!’ and ‘Ball!” as another unfair decision is meted out by the merciless whistle, ‘pheeeep’ and another, faces laundered with dismay and unbelief.
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