Love him. I also love thinking of myself (thanks to your poem) as a water lettuce.

…ongy leaves
and is covered in fine hairs.
Its roots hang free
so it is not anchored to the ground. 
(I know this because David Attenborough tells me so,
his blue eyes twinkling
like fresh water).
I think of all the unmoored souls on the planet,
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Water Lettuce
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Jenine Bsharah Baines
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Love him. I also love thinking of myself (thanks to your poem) as a water lettuce.
1. green is my favorite color
2. I love the idea of my roots hanging free, unanchored to the ground
THANK YOU xox
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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