down the road lived a boy who was stolen one day, lured from his seesaw and slide

by a peach-colored woman with caramel hair, a white ivory smile and southern sea eyes

they played for a while with a great balloon ball, all striped in the colors of oceans and sand

then a wind came around that tousled his hair and pushed him along

to follow the ball as it blew over fences and meadows and into the peach woman's yawn