Remember the time nothing happened?
Remember the tune from the juke box
that didn’t snap us youthward like some
cosmic rubber band? Remember how
the fragments of love just above never
quite assembled? How no one turned,
startled at our laughter draping the air
like Christmas tinsel? Remember your failed
attempt at Bogart cool, your eyes a dark
wander right through me? Remember the pair
of seconds before us and after? How
the sun and the moon never had that same exchange?
Remember the shift that didn’t take us
from being dead asleep
to suddenly wide awake?