Lost in the Dark Unchanted Forest by John R. Erickson

Author:John R. Erickson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cowdog, Hank the Cowdog, John R. Erickson, John Erickson, ranching, Texas, dog, adventure, mystery, Hank, Drover, Pete, Sally May
Publisher: Maverick Books, Inc.
Published: 2015-05-08T21:40:46+00:00

She stared at me and blinked her eyes. “My goodness, what have we done?”

“Well, we’ve changed the scene entirely, Madame, but I think it came out backwards.”

She clicked her tongue. “I was afraid of that. Oh Hank, I shouldn’t have listened to you. I knew better. But on the other hand . . .” She rolled her head around, funny how she could do that, and looked at me with her big owl eyes. “On the other hand, I’ve been in worse places before.”

“You have?”

“Oh yes. And now that you’re up here with me, I don’t feel upside-down anymore.”

“You don’t?”

“Oh no. We can pretend that everything else is upside-down and that we’re right-side up, can’t we?”

“Well . . . uh . . .”

“And who knows, maybe we are. There are so many strange things happening these days. Maybe my backwards power made the whole forest turn topsy-turvy, and now we’re the only objects that are right.”

“No ma’am, I don’t think so. I think we’re hanging upside-down and I’m completely disoriented.”

“What’s wrong with that?”

“Well . . . I don’t like it, is all I can tell you. Let me see if I can explain it.”

At that point, as strange as it may sound, my being upside-down and everything, I sang her a little song.

Disorientation

Now, Madame Moonshine, tell me truly,

If your view of life’s unruly,

How can you figger it out?

See, my down-side is up, I’m confused as a pup,

I can’t distinguish up from about.

I’m told the world spins ’round the sun,

What’s here is here, what’s done is done,

And I can accept that as true.

But the normal world looks strange enough without this bunch of other stuff,

I’m backwards, Madame, how about you?

Disorientation

It’s a revelation

It will turn your head around.

’Cause it’s hard to keep your feet on the ground,

When you’re hanging upside-down.

Then Madame Moonshine sang back to me. Here’s how it went:

Now, early in our history

The world was cloaked in mystery

But two sides began to take shape:

The up-side was up and the down-side was down.

A simple logic hard to escape.

But why should simple logic rule

This universe, this whirlpool

That’s vast beyond our wildest surmise?

You’ve no idea what might could be, you’re just a dog and cannot see

That certainty in life’s the real surprise.

Disorientation

It’s a revelation

It will turn your head around.

’Cause it’s hard to keep your feet on the ground,

When you’re hanging upside-down.

Well, that was pretty good so I sang the next verse and she did the one after that.

That’s well and good but I say that

A dog’s a dog and a cat’s a cat

A blackbird’s black and a bluebird is blue.

But when they’re walking upside-down, the ground’s sky and the sky’s the ground,

I tell you, Madame, I am confused.

The answer, Hank, is plain to see:

You think you’re you, you think I’m me,

But sometimes we’re not what you think.

There’s a lesson to be learned from reality upturned:

That everything can change in a blink.

Disorientution

It’s a revolution

It will turn your head around.

’Cause it’s hard to keep your feet on the ground,

When you’re hanging upside-down.

“You sing pretty well, Madame,” I said when we were done with the song.

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