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Have you
ever dug an old t-shirt from the bottom of some neglected drawer? Have you ever
put it on and smelled it? Did you become reminded of a grandmother's house? Did
it remind you of big breakfasts, red devil fireplace cleaner, colored popcorn
with parmesan cheese, radio flyer red wagons, rusty tractors, birds that land
on your head, bronze horses, red barns, desert crab grass that scratched your
skin, of antique iron cars that your father played with, of 64 crayola crayons,
of cowboy wall paper, and crochet toilet paper dolls, and pink bathroom air
fresheners, of lava rock and weeping willows, of cows and horses and cats and
swift lizards, of roll top desks, of Christmas with an aunt, of catfish, of
high desert snow, of grandpa of cheap beer, father of station wagons, of brick
churches and white houses, of 22's, cross-timber fences, cattle ramps, river
smoothed boulders and trout, water skippers, dams and water falls, boats, ford
fenders, motor homes, red and white, sand and dirt, chipmunks, denim jackets
with wool collars, blue light bulbs, alfalfa cut by combines, hay in the loft,
outhouses, sunflowers, old west towns, of high strata volcano, cowboy hats,
trailer houses and Indian motorcycles, of cow pies and salt licks, tiny plastic
zoo animals, gumby and pokey, mothers, hot wheel track, dirt clods, septic
tanks, filberts and walnuts, chickens, rabbits, pine trees, fire, Chevron Gas
Station rest rooms, childhood forts, crabapples, railroad sheds, drag strips,
irrigation ditches, juniper, dynamite, oil stove heaters, talking G. I. Joe
with eagle eyes and kung fu grip, kissing Mexican girls, catholic best friends,
roses, gray, parakeets, professional wrestling, kid wrestling, concrete high
schools, Ford Tarino, slot cars, cops and robbers, b-b guns, cherries, corn,
radio, ceramics, shop, cub and boy scouts, school clothes, haircuts, fishing,
fireworks, rockets, tree climbing, rock fights, stick fights, bikes, gravel,
bats... My life on the wings of a snow white dove. All remembered by the sent
of an abandoned t-shirt.
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