lullaby ledger

A wild flower flickered in the Monkey King's palm—small as proof, loud as a crown He taught it tricks of wind and riddle-speech, to cart the dusk and tumble kingdoms down Its petals rewrote maps: veins as poems, each fold a compass that makes old borders frown So from that stubborn bloom a new legend grew, stitching history to song and earning its own renown

The bloom began to inventory the impossible: receipts for storms, a ledger of vanished streets and small apologies It listed a moon with pockets, a compass that read which childhood you'd be tomorrow, a church spattered in origami birds Rivers were filed under "waiting," mountains cataloged by the taste of their shadows, borders stamped with lullaby signatures The Monkey King watched the list sign

The bloom tucked a giggle into the margins, folding receipts into paper frogs that hopped names like marbles, They croaked corrections—"Turn here, the horizon is on holiday"—and ribboned the borders with jaunty asides, The Monkey King snapped back, assigning mountains to improvise and rivers to practice slapstick by moonlight, Ledger and monarch became a call-and-answer: one lists the impossible,;

He plucked a canyon like a fiddle string; the air answered with a grin. The bloom folded that canyon into a paper bell and taught rain to read jokes. They tossed names back and forth—his wink exploded fireworks, its petal stitched new surnames into passports—so mountains learned to cartwheel. Borders giggled open; alleys redrew themselves, and the ledger, delighted, inked the prank into law.

He laid the bloom in his palm like a dimming sun; petals shuttered into thin hymns. Paper frogs folded flat into small obits, the silence where their laughter had once been. The ledger sank its pen to listen, listing lost markets and footprints that would not return. The Monkey King's grin uncurled into a quiet blessing; borders were sewn with breath and given to sleep.

The ledger folded its pen into a hush, ink unspooling into gentle syllables of sleep It tallied yawns instead of taxes, ringing each street with a catalogue of dozing names Receipts softened into pillows; paper frogs curled beneath shutters and croaked the town quieter The Monkey King's fingers counted moonlight like coin, and borders sighed closed into sewn margins of dream