POTHOS TAKES A BATH
Pothos uses the sun
As water & lets her body drape, fluently.
She’s funny that way — Always
On the hunt for the perfect cloud
To float atop. As though a cloud
Could draw a breath here. As though
Joy would waft down for her alone.
Jade, on the other hand, hates to be wet.
Hates to be lonely too. She watches
Pothos swallow the yellow droplets
Whole. Watches as they fall: throat
To cavern. Dust to death.
Pothos doesn't worry
About that. Pothos Basks.
Alayna Powell is an MFA student at the University of Alabama who writes about the experience of living in a human body.