The Phenology assignment for this week includes creating an event map for my place. From what I gathered after reading “The World as Events” By Hannah Hinchman, an event map is a map with the purpose of recording the things that are natural and unnatural in a place through your own personal experience and observations there. Here is my best attempt at creating an event map for my phenology place:
It has already snowed this year here in Burlington. We had a lot of snow earlier in the week. My place in Centennial will definitely have been snowed on already this year. As fall comes to an end, the woods is a lot less bright and starts to look dreary. Especially on cold, cloudy days. Without snow covering the ground and branches, everything is dull and sad looking this time of the year and the woods feel a lot darker.
Along with my event map, this week’s assignment has challenged me to write an original poem about my phenology place. I wrote my poem about getting away from the stress of life by going into the woods. I was inspired by how even though there is a whole college campus, city, highway, and even an airport right outside of Centennial, when you are in the woods you can almost escape that chaos.
Erasing Time
The woods is a leisure, a peaceful home
As a kid, it’s where I spent all my time
It was my ladybug umbrella, or the sunshine
The woods here feel like home because of this
When you sit and smell and listen,
The outside of the woods could be anything when it isn’t in sight.
People could be non existent.
And so could the worries and stresses of life.
I feel like I am a kid again. Imagining I’ve erased time.