You looked at me
  said hi and
    kissed me hello
      and
two years fell off
  we were young again
    you loved me
      i loved you.

Walking across the grass
  your lawn
    I could feel it
      before-the-fact
        in the air
          happiness.
I was smiling
  knocked on the clothes-pole
    for luck
      goofing off
        wouldn't it be funny
right now when
  violins are on the soundtrack
    (I can hear the
      violins
        just from seeing
          your shadow
            across the grass)
just as the music swells
  as my eyes fix on you
    (backlit by the yard light
      a white halo
        enveloping)
          as my attention is drawn...
for this clothespole to rush
  suddenly
    in the dark
      Knock!  Just like that
        my head against the pole
          and down I'd go
            I'd clamber up
              recue the violins
                and
Clunk!  Again!
  The other side ---
    Is *that* the grin I have
      upon
        my face
          imagining madcap
            stoogery,
              or do I know already:

We're in love again.
                                        -- CSA, 6-may-2002.  11:25am.