Short Blog #4: Ronna Bloom Workshop

Here is a short creative writing piece I wrote in last week’s workshop with Ronna Bloom. Ronna said to pick an object that we gravitate towards and describe it the best we can. I chose my big Picasso book that sits perched on my desk all day. It seemed fitting to write about because it’s always with me while I study, and I feel attached to it through the story of how I got it.

My Picasso book sits perched on display. A geometric woman with a pearl necklace and flowing blonde hair smirks on the cover. An old library tag folds to cover her left eye with dates…

1977,

1985,

1996,

2005,

Was it that the book was dated,

Or had Picasso become utterly uninteresting enough for it to be thrown in the library dumpster?

Nevertheless,

The woman on the cover remains in blissful peace behind her glossy blanket

Far calmer than I