rainbows remind me of my childhood in honolulu. the lush fragrance of verdant foliage, the kelly green and vermillion squished tree frogs on asphalt, vivid hued kapiolani after the rains. the rainbows on the mainland are so pastel and faded in comparison.
manzanita tree "mountain driftwood"wildfire-propagated native shrub to the Western chaparral region being nothinged by the langoliers of sherbert sub-/urban simulacra, sprinklers and palm tree imports in a neverending story about the failure of the imagination . the Pallid Manzanita is a federally protected endangered species that grows in Oakland and is usually uprooted willy nilly by to protect the Hills property values. my burl of manzanita from fifth grade camp in Cuyamaca and an egg-shaped rock from ong ba ngoai's house on Auburn are the remnants of my childhood mementos after my stepdad's accidental shed explosion and thievery by
psycho ex.barn swallows
take a walk through a meadow during champagne & strawberry-hued dusk of a golden summer through an aerial ballet of swallows flitting, roll and court catastrophe on a trackless roller coaster of agile grace.
miniature donkeysmy favoritist stuffed animal was a melancholy white & red jack that i chose from my mother's mysteriously procured bag of stuffed animals one easter, though sorely tempted by the teddy bear, because i thought no one else
would love him and so rescued the donkey from neglect. he unfortunately was donkey-napped by the aforementioned thief. though i have loved horses ever since i used to gallop along playing Unicorn on the playground, and read every Chincoteague book, i am won over by the canny perserverance of the humble donkey. and wouldn't a small herd of jack & jennet be just the way to keep the acreage trim?
pygmy elephants
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