Walking among the trick or treaters Halloween night it occurred to me that the crowd swirling about us in the dark was very much like the different levels of a tropical rainforest. The rainforest, from top to bottom, includes the emergents, the canopy, the understory and the forest floor. Each stratum comprises its own ecological niche containing species of animals unique to that one level. Riding on my hip, his head bobbing just below my chin, my baby occupied the Halloween canopy layer, passing other babies on other hips, all of them sharing the same stratum together. Bumblebees and ducks and carebears floated by one another in their own, separate world, grinning and cooing at each other. Parents' faces, at the top emergent layer, smiled greetings as the older kids terrorized the understory and toddlers walked and tripped awkwardly along the forest floor of All Hallow's Eve.My little guy was a duck and I was suppose to be a scary New Orleans' voodoo priestess. I think he looks better!
2 comments:
This is incredibly, wonderfully articulate! What a metaphor! Or is that a simile? How come you never joined our writing group pre-embryo? We would have worshipped at your feet!
The very first photo made me laugh out loud....obviously he wasn't inthralled with the offered fair....And please tell me why DADDY is trying to faceslap poor baby with a piece of cake????
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