Rocky Point
We laughed out loud
and kept walking along the beach
My cousins and I
stopping every few feet
to pick up shells
and hold them to our ears
wondering which would be louder
the world inside or
the one outside
Paul would scare us with horseshoe crabs
and Joan and I would screech
weak and feminine
gladly bowing to his fearless boyishness
before jumping into the waves
hoping we had forever
until our mothers would call us to dinner
and we had to grow up
just a little more
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