Audio: Tom Petty on a tape loop at the California Kids' triathlon in Davis (American Girl keeps playing in my head), big cheers for the last girl out of the
Audio: Popcorn, not the kernel that explodes, but the poppy synthesizer song from the 70's, which Zed requested repeatedly on the car iPod today
Visual: Annette's pickin' fingers flyin' on her
Audio: Shovel pushes through composted earth, gentle wind, and wispy voices among the trees.
Visual: Black soil sifted thru long fingers, earth mounded into hills, “eyes” popping thru dusty brown skin
Audio: "The ice we skate is getting pretty thin
The waters getting warm so you might as well swim
My world's on fire how about yours
That's the way I like it and
Audio: "I use food to fill all my voids."
Visual: the six of us mugging for the camera
Olfactory: Roses? No, cherry blossoms.
Kinesthesia: holding on to the good-bye hugs as if they
Audio: voice in the night, "Mama, just making sure you're here."
Visual: 48", finally tall enough for the Aquatic Center's slide, orange dinosaur shorts, red tube, gray foam spray, pocked white
Audio: Unnaturally high-pitched squeak: "Hi Zed, this is the Easter Bunny."
Zed: "Oh, hi. So, hey, it's supposed to rain. Do you think you could hide the eggs today instead of
Audio: nails scratching skin
Visual: Bull's eye: center dot, raised and angry; sickly yellow rim of damaged flesh; outer, spreading circle, a roseola red fried egg filled with purple dots and