Day 3 - United Divided

For today’s prompt, we’ve actually got a 2-for-Tuesday prompt. You can pick one prompt to follow, do both separately, or combine into one prompt. Your choice.

1. Write a United Poem.
2. Write a Divided Poem.

United/Divided

And in the time it takes
for the yellow of a rain-fallen leaf
to communicate to me
- yellow
- leaf
- today
- right now
- wet
- folded
- has rained
the movement of myself
through the sheen of the morning
to the window
- there is no change
all is just
aspect of butter yellow
emanating through space
and morning
and breath
indivisible.

And in the time it takes
for the self to say
- self
- separate
- here
- not leaf
- not rain
- standing
- storied
the yellow
of the rain-fallen leaf
becomes other
as if
one of us was here first
one of us belongs here
more
one of us - as matter -
matters more.