"I'll find you!" I say.

His voice, like a wind chime
tickled by a warm breeze,

"If you can... if you can..."

"Reason."

I sigh,
peering ahead through clouds
of cold grey steel.
Groping hands pass through liquid shadows
and empty corners.

"No! Imagination!"

He laughs,
playful splashes from
a sparkling summer pool.
I grasp a ripple and allow it
to pull me forward.

"There!"

I exclaim.
Consternation shattered like granite
by a chiseling smile.
Illumination by association.

"Can't catch me!"

Like angels breath
his squeals tickle my ears.
For a moment I see
wispy hair colored
like kings gold. And a glimpse
as he turns; a smile,
not imagined even by Michelangelo.
Eyes cool and bright
like miniature beacons
on a foggy night. Full
of mirthful alarm they scream
at my lumbering form, then turn
away, gone once more.
Hide and Seek cont., page 2

"An opening!"

I whisper,
too afraid to say what I begin to see.
My feet pull me forward,
slapping a hurried rhythm
towards the frivolous light.

"Almost there!"

He chuckles,
and fairy bells ring!
I cast off unwanted darkness and emerge
in a sea of emerald foam.
I drink deeply of crystalline
air and inhale rich loamy
earth until I feel my fainting
limbs pull me towards the ground.

"Get up! Get up!"

He seduces me into movement.
Running on bare feet
through downy fields
of smiling meadow-grass I
glide after him.

"Got ya!"

Laughter explodes
like cannon-balls, littering
the field with jelly-roll giggles.
Rolling, tumbling head-over-heels
down revolving inclines; then,
up once more he flies, swiftly
like a tawny sparrow over
waving fields, and vanishes
over the next grassy knoll.

Once more, chasing the child
before me, I run
free through the fields.

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