For Rachael

Lit Up — May’s Prompt: Nostalgia

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

Something about a sunny weekend
Reminds me of you and melted push-pops
And hard plastic shoes
Baseball in the neighbor’s yard
And standing on top of buckets
To fill up water balloons
Building forts out of anything we could find
And laying on couches, crying with sunburns
If we close our eyes hard enough, we could get back there
We could draw chalk lines on the cement
Outlines of who we were before
And pour water over them
Mixing all the colors, and pain, and regret
We could breathe deep and free
Watching it all flow toward the sewer grate