Tovven

🌀WibWob Tricks

Back Compass

Future Footprints

Tovven was walking very

quickly.

"Where are you going?"

"Back."

"Back where?"

"Somewhere I've never been."

Tovven kept walking.

At the pond, Tovven stopped.

A duck was wearing the water

as a hat and singing opera.

Tovven kept walking.

At the creek, three blue frogs

were selling buttons.

One button had six holes.

Another had two tiny windows.

"Been here before?"

asked a frog.

"Nope."

"Good."

Tovven bought two buttons.

Nobody knew why.

Farther along, a turtle with

a briefcase gave Tovven

a crooked compass.

It didn't have north, south,

east, or west.

Just BACK.

The arrow pointed uphill.

Then at a blueberry bush.

Then directly at Tovven's feet.

"Helpful."

The arrow spun around and

pointed behind a hiccuping tree.

Tovven followed.

A map was nailed to the other

side.

One enormous X.

YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN HERE.

Tovven nodded.

"Getting closer."

Around the next bend, a snail

was giving directions.

"Go past the tree you don't

remember.

Turn left where you haven't

been before.

When nothing looks familiar,

you're getting close."

The snail tipped an invisible hat.

Tovven turned left.

Then stopped.

Tiny footprints crossed the

rocky trail.

Tovven looked down.

Same strange feet.

"Yours?"

"Yep."

"When were you here?"

"Never."

Tovven followed them.

Past a crooked tree missing

its middle.

Across a hill wearing a cloud

around its ankles.

Through a patch of moss that

smelled like rain had just left

to buy a canoe.

The footprints went around one

last bend.

Tovven followed.

One footprint.

Then none.

A trail Tovven didn't recognize

zigzagged between the trees.

A squirrel came scrambling

down a tree backwards.

"Do you know

where we are?"

"Nope."

The moon smiled upside down.

The earth whispered, "Wheee."

And there are popsicles on

Thursdays.

Never been

Welcome back

— Spunky Mind

See you on the trail...

in the magical world of

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