So then like Cheryl said to Kevin
we should catch a crawdad
or a garter snake in the creek
the one behind the Souders’ old house
on Florinda Circle, the creek with all the mica
if you shuffle your feet, and then
you try to catch it to make gold jewelry
or just a lot of gold that you could sell sometime
but anyway, we said we would catch a crawdad
or a snake, put it in a Halloween bucket
from McDonald’s last year, see if we could
figure out how to feed it, maybe take turns
having it live in our garage until our mom found it
then it would be the next person’s turn
I wore my jelly shoes, the clear ones
with glitter in them, swirling like mica
I got little rocks stuck in my jelly shoes on the bottom
you know how it has like little holes?
so then I skated on the rocks in my jelly shoes
in the sunlight, all the way home
or maybe to your house.