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A Place in my Memory: Mom and I at the Zoo

The August 24, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum"  is
Visualize a place that you really love, be there, see the details. Now write about it. What colors are there, sounds, smells? When some one else reads it, they should know what it is like to be there by your handling of the details.

She is there
the aroma of gardenias
wafting on the summer air.

What color of dress
did she wear?
She must have wore red
her favorite hue.

Did she smile
as we walked through
the zoo?

I remember
my mother's perfume,
the scent followed her everywhere.

I remember
my mother's laugh
as she watched the monkeys
cavort in their enclosure.

What are the sounds
that I hear
when I think of our trip?
I hear tropical birds,
I hear monkeys,
I hear elephants,
I hear lions,
I hear tigers,
and I hear her voice
back ground music
playing in my memory.

She always has a place in my memory,
she always has a place in my heart,
our souls are connected
as the umbilical cord
joined me to her in the womb.