The Skin's Autobiography

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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. ~Alan Alda

I have learned to live here in this imperfect place

of gravel roads and dry spells

the curves of each continent 

have shifted and grown

in a sea of uncertainty

and they

serve as a reminder

that time etches away and in turn also gives back

winds of many seasons have blown through

leaving only silken curtains of grey

and eyes that view the world

 with a blurry yet perceptive focus

but let me be clear

I am comfortable here

 naked or in armor

it is all i have known and the practice 

of perseverance in shielding and truly letting go

have given me calluses in all the right places

I am tat-tooed in grace and scarred with lesson's travels

that tell stories my lips never will.

©Carrie Van Horn 2019

Odd Number

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Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ~John Betjeman

I may be a word person a poet of sorts, but as a child I had a weird relationship with numbers.

As I learned them in the start of schooling, I gave them genders.

  Let me introduce you to my friends:

1. He is a boy

2. She is a girl

3 She is a girl

4 He is a boy

5 She is a girl

6 She is a girl

7 He is a boy

8 She is a girl

9 He is a boy

10 He is a boy

So I guess you realize now, that I am a crazy loon that should probably be locked up in the Loony Ben!  That being said, here is my contribution to today's prompt at Imaginary Gardens.

Today's theme is: Synesthesia

If I decided to date it would be the number 8

she is a symmetrical beauty and

of course she has all the right curves

If I were to marry it would be the number 2

she is never fickle and the perfect number to serve

If I should choose to go camping

my trail hiking companion

choice would be number 9

he is hardy and a little reckless but in spandex

he sure looks fine

If I ever enter a beauty contest I want my judge to be number 10

he is always a good judge of character and his score always means

 you win!