Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Fireworks July 5, 2025

  

I hear the echo of fireworks, only not those of the Fourth of July, maybe not even real, a memory of bright colors and big bangs I still keep in my head from when I knew they were real, from when each meant something in my life, that afternoon delight when we both played hooky, calling in from different phones in order to keep them at the office from suspecting we might be playing hooky together, the stream of light through the windows above your bed revealing aspects previously lost in the dark of night, now locked up in my head, to recall when I hear real fireworks, our lives have gone in different directors, and maybe I alone recall those moments as joyful.

 


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