Fireworks
Fireworks
Late evening, we came home
carrying folding chairs over our
shoulders along with the weight
of fireworks in our body.
The lights were out on the street.
The dim haze of light from
our green glow stick was
the only light to lit our
sloping path home.
A short while later,
when we walked past the
small trout lake near our house,
My eldest daughter looked at me & said,
I liked the cracker that went up
Like a dragon leaving its smoke behind
flickered its packs of
colored light and lit the sky above.
I felt the shimmering light
coming toward us.
the white columns of
Smoke rose into the air.
My little One said, “the sound
of the last cracker
almost took my heart out,
even the walls of the building we sat
under gently shook, The blend of colors
lit the clear July sky.
The rockers went up from
the beds of crackers for 30 minutes