Old Dominion

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. - Thoreau

with a breezed towel of regalia

attended by a clothespinned, royal seal

a potty my throne

its liberating plunger for an imperial sceptre

panoramic innocence coronating a sovereign crown

i journey back to the reign of noble youth

a sort of holy crusade

with all the pomp and circumstance of sandcastled childhood

barely able to remember the way

not knowing quite what to say

oh, for one more chance to play

king for a day

Author's Note

"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." - Thoreau