Go. Go & Wander Aimlessly

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We need more hours of aimless wandering

Digging to China in our backyards

Smearing yellow dandelions on our arms and legs

Making magic stew with soil and Earth worms.

We need grass stains.

Take a walk along the river by our house

Without checking the time

Stopping for any pocket-worthy pebble

or dragonfly

Peering into broken glass windows

Of haunted houses

And down old drinking wells

Imagining old families

With many children

And creepy closets.

We need to race each other to tumbleweed finish lines

Shimmy across moss covered stones

ankle deep in cold streams

Gasps and giggles.

Soggy socks and muddy soles

Going home with belly rumbles

Pressing maple leaves between the pages of heavy books

Until when we next remember

To open them.

-From the Archives, August 2015