When situations get close to being considered the worst
they are more often simply Easter.

Sierra got scared.
There was an alligator sound
or she thought
there was an alligator sound.
Made us turn around.
Though I didn’t know
how to turn around. I am bad
at reverse. I am bad
at skills. We were in the mangroves.
We were about a mile out
in the mangroves. It was reasonable
for there to be an alligator sound, it is not
to think the sun across my floor is a cat

when there’s none.