an attempt was made

previous part: https://jordynsaelor.com/2026/03/19/hafta-say/

all parts: https://jordynsaelor.com/cant-catch-me-now/

***

Yet I started to feel a bit bad

for the creature

and this garden

so many of them were trying to save,

obviously in vain,

but I still

worked my way to shallower water

and tried making runes in the lake mud

with my feet

to spray jets of wind

that’d launch water onto the flames

but to no one’s surprise

except maybe that creature’s

the silt just sunk into smoothness

around every line I tried to make.

So…oh well I guess.

Too bad for this garden

I’d never met.

Maybe I’d see

if this lake

had any fish

I could catch

and cook up

over the burning grass.

***

find my books at this link

support the blog