Pippit

🌀 ZigZag Tricks

Clover Scoot

Muddy Hat

The rain had left the trail shiny.

Suspiciously shiny, enough

to have an alibi.

Pippit looked down.

A patch of mud smiled like a

banana with car keys.

Pippit knew better.

Farther ahead, the other

creatures were choosing

where to step.

One picked a patch of mud with

a daisy stuck behind its ear.

Slip.

Slide.

Clover.

The clover caught it.

Mostly.

Another stepped near a rock

reading a very small newspaper.

The rock coughed.

Too late.

Down the hill it went.

It returned wearing somebody

else's hat.

Nobody recognized the hat.

Pippit stepped onto a patch

of clover.

The clover sighed happily.

Apparently, it had an itchy back.

Ahhhhh.

Next came a root.

It stuck three tiny toes out of

the mud.

The middle one had a

mustache.

Pippit stepped there.

Then on a rock.

Then clover.

Then root.

A mushroom nearby kept score

like a pigeon playing bingo.

Nobody had asked it to.

Behind Pippit—

Slip.

Whoop.

Clover.

The clover was getting quite

good at this.

Pippit continued.

Clover.

Root.

Rock.

A particularly innocent-looking

patch of mud waited ahead.

Pippit narrowed its eyes.

The mud whistled.

Pippit hopped onto what had

sprouted.

A ladybug raised the landing

flag.

The clover held like a lobster

with a library card.

Around the bend, the trail

disappeared.

Pippit couldn't see what came

next.

A little green leaf poked through

the mud.

Then another, with red-and-white

striped pom-poms.

Very encouraging.

Pippit stepped there.

One foot landed.

The other figured itself out later.

The moon smiled upside down.

The earth whispered, "Wheee."

And there are popsicles on

Thursdays.

Somewhere holds

Step there

— Spunky Mind

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