A Walk In The Park


Octagons of stones paved the way
Through the park beyond the carousel.
I carried a new rubber ball
A big one, striped red, white and blue
To bounce along the pavers to the zoo.
We passed a toy stand.
Something caught my eye
A crepe paper bird with a long paper tail
Perched on a stick.
It chirped
If you moved it in the wind.
There was nothing else to do that day
But skip along the path and play.
It was the time before time
When each day was an eternity
A never-ending festival of joy
In discovering I was alive.
I could feel
The summer sun upon my skin
And smell the roasting peanuts in the stalls.
You bought me peanuts to feed to the pigeons
Whose feathers contained all the colors
Of the universe,
Whose little bright eyes
Told secrets of their journeys in the skies.