A farm farewell
I traveled the woods there. I got stuck in the towering trees there. I played make belief for hours on the arcs over stretching the ravines there. I feared the quicksand there. I found the best hiding places there. I got stung day after day by the stinging nettles there, but not by the hidden wasp’s nests there. My cousins weren’t quite so fortunate. I bottle fed my baby Big Mac there, and lied on the kitchen floor crying at the headless chickens there. I saw my first family of moles there, I caught a fish bowl’s worth of tadpoles there, I tried to nurse a broken winged baby bird there, and night after night I fell asleep to the songs of the croaking frogs there. I went from an openly sugar-loving child to a secretly sugar-hoarding child there. I said a final farewell to my beloved grandpa there; he […]