Fourth of July
Saturday, July 5th, 2008We gave the street a rainbow colored breeze
of smoke to battle smoke from up the hill.
Our parachutes were landing in the trees,
small vict’ries sought by shaking limbs and leaves
or firing up basketballs that failed,
their red-orange flash producing just a breeze
that almost targeted the favorite neice
who screamed and sent it back up to its goal.
The singed [...]