A tarot card illustration titled 'THE FOOL' featuring a young boy with a stern expression, hand raised, next to a green stuffed turtle. The background is a warm-toned room.

Make a tarot card inspired piece of art based on the imagery in this poem: Turtles for Clark and Leo “We’re going on an adventure” Clark announced, and with a gesture he sliced the air itself in half, karate chopped the living room to pieces in the storm of summer break. His psychotic fort was already sprawling across the air- conditioned downstairs, and he put on a bookbag full of the essentials: fruit snacks in the blue pouches, bent little sunglasses, and his brother’s stuffed turtle, decaying in the way all well-loved things do. Any parent could look at Turtle for one second and know that must be the one, the boy’s first friend, because Turtle’s green skin is pilling, and the small blanket once sewed on is always getting lost, forgotten on the car floor or falling into one of the plentiful black holes every house full of children seems to spawn just before bedtime. I think of their Mom sewing velcro onto Turtle, to keep his washer-pruned turtle paws together as best she could. And then I think of mothers all around the world trying to mend that first damage that matters to their sons– these scrappy surgeons have put millions of stuffies under the knife of their ingenuity, under a million different Singer needles until there’s nothing left to save, and the soft friends of children everywhere all slowly ash to the winds of time and touch. — From time to time, you hear about the early horrors of boyhood, like when a lunatic friend of your kid spotted a live turtle in the See more