There on a bed of pine needles

we would gaze at the clouds

 

Ants crawling over bare toes

and dusty jean pockets full

of found treasures

 

“Look! Do you see the elephant?”

“You mean the one dancing on the big castle?”

 

We dreamed and visualized

the afternoon away

 

As squirrel and rabbit and deer

quietly witnessed

passing by on their way home