thoughts on water

i wrote her name in the sand today

we made it out to Eichler’s Cove
after weeks of promising the boys
we’d go build sand castles

and we built and we built and we built
and the housatonic knocked them all down

and the boys got mad
and they yelled at the river
for acting like a river

and i understood
i suggested we build farther out
from the water's edge

and they squealed with delight
and grabbed their shovels
and their buckets
and started to rebuild their castles

and i wrote her name in the sand
and the current took her away