April Fools’ Day. Trick The One You Love

Life is one fool thing after another, whereas love is two fool things after each other. – Oscar Wilde

Miss that backyard. Punta Gorda, FL 2006.
April Fool's Day.
Seventeen years ago.  
Dawn.

On the dock 
in our backyard 
at the Peace River.

I knelt down
on one knee 
and asked my wife 
to marry me.

She smiled
like the angel
she is
and said,
"No."

I heard a splash.
A dolphin 
swam by.
No joke.

It was just like that.