A Cherry Tree in Scraptoft
The instruction invites overthinking:
describe your hometown through
the medium of simple sentences
and limited [foreign/new] vocabulary.
My home is beautiful (isn’t this
obligatory?) There is a small park
(gifted to the parish council who
have to pay for its maintenance.)
I lack the words to describe why
I took a photo of a tree clouded
in cherry blossom in the small park.
It could be anywhere, where I live
or in the country whose
language I’m stumbling over.
Emma Lee’s publications include The Significance of a Dress (Arachne, 2020) and Ghosts in the Desert (IDP, 2015). She co-edited Over Land, Over Sea, (Five Leaves, 2015), reviews for magazines and blogs at https://emmalee1.wordpress.com