• I am from plastic ninja daggers
    From Costa Rican hammocks and exercise balls
    I am from the chained shut attic
    And the $20 bill in the wall
    I am from the hamster's rock in the garden
    The Chinese rocket ship tree
    Whose long gone limbs I remember
    As if they were my own

    I'm from mud baseball and walk the fence
    From cone-headed Hunter and Smokey the rabbit
    I'm from Squirt Assassins and pillowcase parachutes
    And from sleeping bag sleds

    I am from the lady in my attic and the man in my basement
    And "Deirdre did it!"
    I'm from eating birthday candles
    I'm from St. Paul and Ireland
    I am from pirate's jewels,
    Baskettios, and "power"
    From "Peter Discovers Gravity"
    When the "brick wasn't coming down"
    From paint-chipped dog tags
    Hanging in the basement
    With the barely readable "Hunter" imprinted on them

    ~MBK