We built:
vacation beach
sand castles
monuments to the sky, walls to keep out
evil.
We wrote:
garage band love songs with
perfect chords, smooth
transitions and no chorus
We painted:
muted
watercolors that ran
lefttoright -exactly
instead of running off the page, ruined
and they are all gone
all those brief moments of
clarity
single shafts of light
here and then, not.
washed away by the outgoing tide
and only we remember how it felt.