Driving home from a meeting today, I decided to jump into Miss Rumphius’ Poetry Stretch for the week. I decided to write my poem to a necessity of life: the backup disk.
To My Backup Disk
Small silver circle
You are the storage shed
in the back yard of my mind
filled with seeds of ideas
well-fertilized cover letters
weeds and blooms in equal measure
Your shiny plastic roof
protects my garden
from the sad storm of
accidental deletion,
the blue sky of death,
and the barren winter
of forgetfulness
Thank you
—Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved
It’s not too late to join in. Check out Miss Rumphius’ post from Monday!