Two days ago, after the stress of the move and plenty of relaxing at the beach the night before, I decided to take CG up on her offer of a henna tattoo. I had figured it would be something similar to what I’d gotten in Portland, a small design that took up about half of one hand. Two-ish hours later…
I even managed to sleep that night without scraping off too much of the henna, and the stains are beautiful! I’ve gotten all kinds of questions at work about what her hourly rate is. A third career for CG, perhaps?
The next evening was the usual Wednesday night – Anarchy poetry slam followed by karaoke. Of course, what we’d thought would be the usual open-mic slam was actually a “haiku throwdown” where it was on-the-spot haikus. Talk about scary and fun – fun when this cute girl got up and read a haiku that started with “henna-handed girl”… I was literally blown away. Then I perhaps got a bit too into it, but did come up with a few that I think are worth keeping.
For your reading enjoyment, a haiku triplet:
This is a duet
Meant entirely for three
Quantum physics works
Swirling our red souls
With trials, tribulations
Into cosmic pulp
To make paper with
That we all write haiku on
To find our lost souls
