Good grief, we’ve managed a week of this nonsense! Everyone hanging in there? OK, today’s official NaPoWriMo prompt was to write a tritina, which just means I have to end my lines with the same three words, in different orders. It’s more of an instruction than a prompt, which mean I’m free! To choose whatever snippet of otterlore tickles my whiskers! So here you go – in Korea, a person who sees an otter will forever after attract rain clouds. What a fate.
I have seen an otter, and lost the sun.
From this day, I’ll always draw the clouds
to trail me, black and faithful as a dog.
I swear, at first I thought it was a dog
trotting through the long grass in the sun.
I called to it. My call became a cloud.
The callous skies are thickening with cloud,
and where I walk it’s raining cats and dogs.
At night I dream of basking in the sun,
but when the sunrise comes, I’m dogged by clouds.
Rain doesn’t seem to bother the otters much, or stop them from eating as often as hobbits, as you can see in this video.
Kirsten Luckins 