and the hours after that

Cat’s Cradle

by: Olive Senior
from: Gardening in the Tropics

Playing
cat’s cradle

I could tie
the sun up tight

there’d be no night

but then with endless day
you’d stay out there so far away
playing out your lines

and I’d be here
playing cat’s cradle.

Without you

too long
the day

I untie
the sun

You haul in
the night.