Vayloori

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Sky Eggs

Worm Takeout

Nobody had ever seen a Vayloori

stay in one sky for long.

The clouds kept moving.

So did Vayloori.

One morning, a gray cloud

lowered a tiny staircase.

Vayloori climbed aboard.

The cloud was thick and

damp like a marshmallow

after swimming lessons.

Rain dripped through the floor

wearing tiny parachutes.

A puddle had somehow

followed them upstairs.

Nobody knew how.

Vayloori climbed higher.

At the top of the cloud,

it opened a little trapdoor.

The sky cracked an egg.

Sunshine poured in.

"Oh."

Vayloori climbed through.

Upstairs was warm as a biscuit

in a kangaroo pocket.

Someone had left sunglasses

on a lawn chair.

Vayloori put them on.

The sun didn't mention it.

A little farther along,

three socks and one mitten

were drying on a sunbeam.

The mitten was still damp.

Vayloori sat down for a sunny

snack of rainbow bananas.

The purple ones were crunchy.

Below, rain tapped on umbrellas

and worms ordered takeout.

Above, Vayloori finished it's snack.

The wind arrived.

"Where are we going?"

The cloud thought about it.

"Probably over there."

Its address changed immediately.

Vayloori held onto the lawn chair.

The sunglasses stayed on.

For a while, the cloud

rained upward.

Nobody mentioned it.

By afternoon, Vayloori tumbled

through another trapdoor

and landed beside a creature

painting stripes on a watermelon.

"Where have you been?"

Vayloori brushed a little cloud

off its knee.

"The sunny side."

Behind them, another cloud

lowered a staircase.

Vayloori looked up.

And climbed.

The moon smiled upside down.

The earth whispered, "Wheee."

And there are popsicles on

Thursdays.

Clouds move on

Sky stays weird

— Spunky Mind

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