Penelope and the Succulent
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Penelope and the Succulent
On a bright fall day, Penelope's mother told her
"Penn, we're going to the nursery today."
Penn wasn't sure what a nursery was
She knew what nurses were
People who worked at the doctor's office
But nursery was new
Penn and her mother rode the Andreadas Street car
All the way to the ocean
Penn stared out the window at the tall victorian houses
And watched them blur by
At the nursery, Penn's mother told her
"If you find a small one you like, we'll bring it home"
Penn wandered through dripping red fuschia
And the bright upright delphiniums
Through long shelves of tiny succulents waiting to be planted
One caught her eye
It was a yellow succulent whose tag read, "Sedum"
She held it up but she could see sunshine through it
"I want this one"
Penn took her plant home, put it down on her table
And stared at it
She couldn't plant it, she didn't want to see it
In the ground setting down roots before it had seen
The whole house
She walked it from the living room to the bathroom
And even into the closet
She put it down in the kitchen
Oh, but it still wanted to go further
She took it to the park, to the beach
Into school, over the bridge, into the janitor's closet
Into the science lab, to the gym, to the track
Under the kitchen table, onto the fields
And into each neighbor's garden
She took that plant, well, everywhere
And now she was running out of places to take him
She had to find more secret places
She took him to explore even more miniscule areas
Like, into the sink, beneath the bed, inside of drawers
Behind the couch, peeking into the cat's ear
Inside of cups, through keyholes, between her toes
Inside her mother's safe
One day Penn woke up, her plant was gone
She looked into the sink, inside the keyholes
Between her toes, nowhere
Sedum was nowhere
She ran to her mother, "Where's my plant?"
"I left on the table now it's gone."
Penn's mother pointed to the back yard
Penn ran out and saw it sitting there
Was he ready to be planted?
Had he seen everything?
The yellow sedum sat in the sun, looking strong