standing in a field
where you can see clear
into tomorrow
and the closest thing to a building
is the ant mound
below the apple tree
atop the hill

many a day we set up camp beneath this tree
as children we would race to it
just to touch it
then            d   a     r        t 
off 
to the stream
(for the last one in
was a rotten egg)

and we would run
        leaving a trail of laughter 
                                          down the hill

and clear across our childhood
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