Down to the marionette cottage where three billy goats cross the bridge to the delight of little kid imaginations running wild after dioramas and skeletal structures of the continent primeval at the Museum of Natural History with caribou cougar coyote in the tundra mountain valley, mammoth tyranasaurus at full scale, mice scamper beneath the fence back up the garden stairs to the Belvedere Castle’s tower to telescope the stars before amble south to the ramble between the trees canopied darts an indigo bunting flaps glimmer iridescent blue on a breeze through the branches and follow the fronds around the lake a duck drops landing feet down with flaps rippling water beneath the Bow Bridge crossing on the otherside sits greyhair tweed jacket on a bench breaking bagel bits for all-seeded bird food, continue across the street to Alice on a toadstool with the white rabbit and madhatter, down around the conservatory water filled with floating triangle sails of the model yacht club, and back across the street west down a winding path to the open terrace where the Angel of the Waters stands above the cherubs giving blessings below, dip my hand through the surface…
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