like raindrops

They came in that stillness, like they always do when you slow it down… they came like rain, a little at first, then more steady, splashing in big drops all around my body as I lay there like dead.

I remembered losing that little plastic shoe to my new Barbie and closing my eyes real tight and wishing for it to reappear and then opening them again to see it right in front of me on the driveway and knowing that it was a miracle.

I remembered, pulling the garden hose up the ladder to the top of the slide and running it all afternoon to make a water-slide. And later, getting in trouble for the giant mud pit that it made at the bottom.

I remembered hiding at the top of the swing-set during hide and seek, heart racing, not sure if my hiding spot was visible from the ground, but knowing that if it wasn’t, I was definitely going to win. And I remembered staying up there for much longer than I should have, enjoying my lonely victory.