Tumultuous Garden

Rachel Gerk
2 min readMar 26, 2023
A stalk, thick with many different-sized thorns.
Photo by Dustin Humes on Unsplash

Your words spoken; a root in my fertile soil.
They take hold, grow, expand.
Hit my air and sprout wildly in all directions.
No longer any control; which way is up?

They have a life of their own.
My fantasies and fears have
watered the root of your reality
and bloomed into something mad.

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Rachel Gerk

Ex-chef/cook, current food-lover, equal parts adventurer and stay-at-home introvert, photography enthusiast, and spiritual explorer. Also, cats dig me.