Skymble

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Sky Pebbles

Zipper Moons

Some creatures gather seashells.

Some gather shiny pebbles.

Skymble collects whatever the

rain remembers.

Today, a curled leaf gathered a

little water and found itself

unexpectedly carrying the

weather.

By breakfast, it was carrying three

clouds, half a pine tree, a sloth,

and an entire piece of sky.

The leaf seemed perfectly

comfortable about this.

The sky did too.

A dragonfly stopped by for a closer

look.

It found another dragonfly looking

back.

They nodded politely.

Neither one asked any questions.

The clouds joined in too.

The rain knew its part.

The sky did too.

The whole thing zipped together

the way it always does, while

somewhere, a chipmunk

misplaced an accordion.

By lunchtime, the wind tipped the

leaf.

The clouds drifted away.

The pine tree returned to being

a pine tree.

The sky spilled back into the sky.

Nobody seemed concerned.

There was plenty more where it

came from.

Later that afternoon, a hollow in

a piece of bark filled with rainwater.

A cedar tree moved in.

Then a cloud.

Then the moon, who arrived early

after having brunch with the tide.

The bark made room for everyone.

It was larger on the inside.

Skymble seemed pleased.

You can usually tell.

The world starts appearing in

places it shouldn't fit.

And somehow fits perfectly,

like a capybara walking

through a grocery store.

And the moon smiled upside down.

The earth whispered, "Wheee."

And there are popsicles on

Thursdays.

The sky plays the

accordion in dew drops

— Spunky Mind

See you on the trail...

in the magical world of

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