A long black coat
is how it all began.
You and I, bad
lighting and a camera.
Tests at the same time and I
waited for you afterward.
No guarantee that you
would show up. Sandwiches
on the creekside, turtles
and kitty cat meows.

An abandoned classroom,
primus tempore nobis.
Everything rests
on one question.
“Is this okay?”

The most important one
I’d ever been asked.
You made me your
Little Kitty.