a vignette on whimsy (personified)
this was an assignment for my creative writing class, i tried my best!
Whimsy is someone who will go anywhere and do anything.
She would go into a bear-filled forest or shark-infested waters just for the fun of it.
She would run through empty fields to get to one of her many homes.
She never stays in one place for too long.
She is one with the Earth and, at dawn,
sits under a tree and eats a kiwi just to see the sunrise.
At dusk, she lays in a hammock, her hair hanging off of it,
and eats dill pickles just to see the moon rise.
At midnight, she bathes in the moonlight and
dips her feet in the little pond underneath her favorite tree.
In every one of her many homes, the walls are painted jewel tones,
like the gems on her collection of pendants.
Her cabinets are full of fragile china,
the petals of decayed flowers, and books about leprechauns.
Her couch is made of corduroy and her rug is made of alpaca fur.
In her most current home, she is hand painting an abstract mural
of that pond of hers, but full of fairies.
She thinks that if fairies were real,
she would be friends with them.
