National Poetry Month 2018
Still Life by Sarah Hazel
My good friend, Sarah Hazel, is an artist in Houston, Texas. She answered my call for paintings for this poetry project. You can find her amazing oil paintings here on her website.
I get my inspiration for writing from many places. From Poets & Writers comes The Time is Now with a poetry prompt each week. This week we were prompted to write after e.e. cummings Spring is like. I borrowed the line “Spring is like a perhaps hand.”
Spring is like a perhaps hand
holding high
a watering hose
drenching earth new,
green-blown grass,
soil growing soft
and sensual.Spring is like
a perhaps hand placing
flowers in a vase
centered
on a plate of green salad,
tall and tender
without thunderous applause.
Reflections on the Teche 
What an interesting way to weave together the prompt with your friends’ painting. The repetition of cummings line with the changed line break really caught my attention.
I love the final line here–and that sense it gives me of spring doing its thing without needing our intervention or notice.