my mind took me today
way back into childhood\'s past
about the age of nine or ten
to familiarity of a farmers field
i knew so well among the company of boys
their faces nor names no longer recalled
and to a pond near the hillside top
where we discovered newts
common newts of camoflaged green speckle
and their larger black salamander brothers
with pink bellies bespotted in black
learning, enjoying and leaving behind
a boyhood adventure of discovery
just a five minute mind slip to a yesterday
all in a smile of content
a near lifetime away on a whisp of whim
where my mind will wander as it will
for no reason but to glimpse one part
of a day in this life once more