toy house

peer in,

we look so young, look here:

   Everything is moveable to tell the story

recreated miniatures in a furnished memory,

The oven dial painted on, the cupboards don't open, the greens don't wilt in the fridge.

The life around them animates, we pay no mind to the wooden food.

The day is always playing from the beginning

we dance to perpetual laughter echoed from summer to summer.

That's us: drinking the year at the kitchen table 

in purple light.

I loved you so much in that house

in the rooms seamlessed between

The year was hours long; we were kids together.