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 waves knocked them all down
and the boys got mad
and they yelled at the river
for acting like a river
and i understood
and i suggested we build farther
from the water
and they squealed in delight
and grabbed their shovels
and their buckets
and started to rebuild their castles
and i wrote her name in the sand
