dad asleep and mom away
i'm along as you're alive
we ride a ****
to neverland

a kick back to
the summers when
we skinned our shins
on this brick wall and

our dog barks
black and white and
she's not the same
same fence, same size
same patch of dirt
the first one died
this one barks
wags her tail and whines
for us
to stop

but
i copy
your cough
another hit and run
watch the crown of clay
in your pinky nail
match the crescent veiled by
pines

and i
wait
for the world to slow down
like those honey-colored
summertimes