Excersize #4

[Lylie]

Your list for this excersize is:

ball
mint
arrow
ship
tissue

Lets see what you can come up with.

[gryphonpoet]

*Tempest*

The air fills your sinus,
with a mint's sharp-edged arrow
into your eye. No time
for a tissue. The movement rocks
against your hold, trying to
throw you off her deck.
the ship doesn't hate any of her crew,
but the storm that
rocks us around the cape
would rather crumple us
into a ball, then toss us into the strait.
She is angry with us, the sea,
though I don't know why.
When I left home, my mother asked,
"Why don't you get a wife to settle down with?"
I told her that I could never
stand to fight with a woman the way
my father fought with her.
But here I am now. Fighting with a woman
just the same.
And like my parents,
I am filled with my lover
and will die in her arms.