We Made a Fort
Out of chairs and blankets.
Out of pillows and mats.
Under the neighbor’s back deck.
Out of sticks and palm tree leaves
On the beach. With logs on the beach.
With the comforter, and then
There was more bouncing.
In the hallway of our dorm one night.
In the snow to get ready for
A snowball fight. Of sunflowers.
In Sam’s Club, and we threw
Paper towels at people. Out of sheets
And we played with our toys in there.
With cushions. Using the kitchen table.
(A decent fort should fit four children
And one adult comfortably.)
Out of a blanket and some cord
For my nephew to play in
While we were cooking. With my dad
In the trees behind my house.
Under the jungle gym, and you needed
A password to come in. With the box
And I had so much fun playing in it.
Out of a hole in the ground, and it had
A pink toilet seat for a trap door.
Out of twigs and pine needles.
With a bunch of stuff we found lying around.
With curtains.
And we lived there for a year
On air and sandwiches.
-Darren in Alabama (search phrase: “we made a fort”)