November 09, 2003

The privilege and rewards of a catapult contest

"You can have some of my underwear." Prescott said as we stood on the hardwood floor taking off our clothes.

Astonishingly, the water running down our pink legs was still in a liquid state. I think. My legs felt like concrete fenceposts. Puddles were forming underneath us as we took off our clothes and threw them an a heap like seaweed on the porch. Lostcreek turned to steam and rose out of the socks hanging in front of the fire.

Stephey kept telling us: "At last year's catapult contest, it was 20 degrees warmer and creek walking up to the bridge didn't hurt so bad last year".

I believe that is the first time those words have ever met in the same sentence in the history of the english language.

And in celebration, Cara said to me, "... you can have some of my homemade socks if you want."

"let's go up to the house and light the fireworks." Prescott announced.

and the linguistical explosions kept coming.

Blood began to percolate into my my ankles again. I grabbed a pair of Stephey's pants and Prescott's dad had a pair of shoes on the green floormat behind the door. I shoved the concrete on the ends of my legs into cara's homemade socks and wedged them into the Reebok's from 2 decades ago that were 2 sizes to small from behind the door.

Back outside the air was sharp and clear. I started the john Deere gator and prescott jumped in beside me. The rest of the ensemble piled in the back in a mismatched ball of hats and scarves and gloves like a ball of static clinged laundry stuffed in a dryer.

We bounced through the woods and out into the dark field. The moon began to softly wink at me as to acknowledge my situation.

Ahead of us the dark field rose up to the knoll. The catapults sat silently along the edge of the field like Sphinx sleeping in the African desert . Shattered pumpkins laid silent and still in the bean field like dead soldiers on a battle ground. The campfire burned like a sentry's station in front of the willow tree overlooking the dark field. and on the hillside behind his house were Prescott's and my parents sitting around the campfire.

And right behind us, bundled tight like a ball of laundry, the words friend and family could be interchanged as easily as my undergarmets.

i was cold because my body was running through the creek that flows through the farm. i was getting warmer because my heart was beating blood through my veins. the catapults sat silenlty in the field because we built them. the pumpkins laid strewn across the darkness because we have the space to smash them across the field with the catapuls we built. i was wearing homeade socks and yellow pants and Reeboks that are too small because i love my friends. Our parents were at the top of the field because they love us. The lunar eclipse was happening above us because the world I live in is spinning around a sun.

"You know." Prescott said to me as we spun around between the sun and the moon, "We are lucky."

I couldn't agree more.

Posted by Todd Roeth at November 9, 2003 11:45 PM
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