one. we traced outlines of our frames in chalk on sidewalks
two. You asked me if I would marry you under the oak tree in your backyard with fireflies as our witnesses I said, I do
three. We started kindergarten today and I asked you to build our future house out of legos you looked at me like I had three heads and pushed me down. They said, Boys will be boys you said the same thing on my porch that afternoon but you gave me a flower you picked from your mother’s garden and said you wouldn’t do it again.
four. You stopped coming over to catch fireflies and hold my hand. My mom said that we grew apart but I told her that we had promised to get married in spring in your parents yard under the tree we climbed that year when I fell and broke my arm. She told me I fell in love like a child but how could i fall in love any other way?
five. So isn’t it fitting that I fell in love with a Boy afraid of heights? Who never even had foreknowledge of what it felt like to fall.