A Basket of Rice Balls

by reminiscent-afterthought

Maybe they look a little plain, but in the centre of each of them is a plum.

5. Meadow

A/N: Written for the Freeverse Frenzie Competition, poem 39. Also for table 10 on prompt central, prompt #005: Meadow. The character in this is Hatori.

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A Basket of Rice Balls
5. Meadow

Maybe it did exist.
That meaningless place

Built in
a meadow's soft hull
filled with hay – moist
from the sun's dew…

It wasn't as though he'd given up
on that dreamed-up place
but even if it did exist it seemed
far beyond his reach.

The only sun that shone
with his snow

Was the harsh blinding light.