1.10.2013

wizard in pink pants

Some days there is magic in the air—or at least in the mind. It started when I saw this woman waiting for the bus. I thought she was carrying a magic staff topped with a crystal ball.
It was a curtain rod.
Later, on the sidewalk, a hummingbird wing sparkled, a jewel in the sun.
It was a candy wrapper.
Most exciting of all, there was the wild boar as big as a garbage truck rooting up the ground outside the Museum of Natural History.
Alas, it proved a fallen oak.
Was it a magical day, the kind you have sometimes as a kid?
 Or just an acid flashback?

3 comments:

  1. Sounds like poor eyesight + good imagination. I get that sometimes.

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  2. Claudia,
    An absolutely wonderful post.

    Thank you for your magical eyesight -- reminiscent of James Thurber seeing a marmalade cat rolling across a street before he realized it was a discarded paper bag.

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  3. Count me in; I love this one too!

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