underground acid testing lab assistant.
cabbage patch funny bunny.
campfire charcoal face.
sugarcube kisser.
eyeball-licker.
rear-view mirror messer-upper.
loving wife and mother.
dear whomp monster, i don't think of you often. i'm going to see you soon and i'm a little scared that i haven't dealt with your haunting. filed away all the sights and the sounds and the smells of you. sealed your apparition in a glass-covered box and labeled it onceuponantimus-lovicus. and hiding. at some point, didn't i lose you completely? perhaps you're still roaming somewhere in my primordial.
eight years is a long time to hide up in a tree.
. . .
nineteen ninety two. that was the year. i said i do. now all is different, up here.