My Magic Childhood Sight

(I first thing mentioned here had to be from me dreaming "awake," but the other two things I still swear to this day I saw them and my sisters verify they remember me telling everyone about seeing those things!) A child, I woke from sleep once and surveyed, before my very eyes, a big parade with clowns and elephants and marching band. It could not be a dream; it was so grand! Then later where I lived there was a wood behind the street of our new neighborhood. And once while playing war games, I could swear I saw back there a big brown grizzly bear! It probably was thought I was a liar the day I claimed that on the telephone wire a toucan perched with bill bright green and red, which no one else had seen before it fled. It’s ages since I’ve had the chance to see such wondrous visions where they should not be! Nearsightedness is not my only plight. I’ve long since lost my magic childhood sight. For Crystal Wilkin's first Contest "Childhood Memories!"