The Flashbacks

1.
This was where it began;
I ran outside, naked
before my first birthday
to see what all the booming 
from the sky was about.

2.
I was a little bird
in the tiny cage
of the dark space,
learned to not cry
even when hungry.

3.
The skating boy on the pond;
his mom, at the gate of her house, 
stopped me passing by 
to ask a few questions about my parents,
told her son to come home;
his word "No--"
What was in her mind?

In sixth grade graduation,
why he chose me to sing the song?

4.
The old elm with a large hollow 
in the trunk; by his side a shabby cedar tree,
beneath them the well,
the eye watching me watching it,
questing hidden tomorrow

©Byung A. Fallgren