Oh how light the night sky is sister
where there are no clouds
Loons wail
I’m here where are you
I’m over here
the moon hovers in the clear
It’s all just shades sister
light blue aqua mad midnight
how much black or white
the way you butter your toast
our toes in bath water the same
There were gorillas
near the creek forbidden
and a cottage Minerva
forbidden too but these secrets sister
opened us full
lagoons warm
fluid and sea spent
to play the categories
boys we love
names of cereal
brands of cigarettes
places we’d travel
The crawdads
wonder what became
of those girls
who plucked them
barehanded
from the waterfall sister
I tell them nothing