Two Days

I went to your house the other day

(I got there early)

and made friends with the cats.

We laughed

and stayed up late

and watched a scary movie (that wasn’t very scary).

At 2 o’clock we went out to look at the sky.

We watched for shooting stars

(there were three).

There were no mosquitoes, that night,

the sky was an impossible black,

the grass was cold (and wet).

We didn’t want to go to sleep

and in the morning we didn’t want to get up

(but the sun made us).

2002