Last night

Last night

we watched the sun go down over the swans

drifting

on the water.

We watched

the black birds

flying together across that deep

blue sky

and then looked west,

further away

and watched them fly

through the orange.

The sun was gone

and

we got cold.

We biked to get some soup

and hot tea

then found ourselves arm

in arm

in the CVS trying to pick out chocolate.

It took us a very long time.

We ate chocolate and rode the escalators

to the trains

up and down at least

three times

and pretended we were late

for something, nervous we

would miss the train!

But we were in no rush

at all

we had nowhere to go

and really

we did not want to go home.

But soon the chocolate was gone

and they turned off the escalators.

 

 

-for C.