I knew
Friday night TV light
Trailer kids
Bottle-rocket sizzle
Quick gravel crunches
Giggles behind a fender.
Day-night amalgams
Video poker and ****** fog
Sidewalk thermal vent nap-takers
Torch lighter hisses
Boulders sublimated to smoke
Toe-curling sigh
And crying at the dawn.
I want to know
Tree house daydreams
Kitchen curtain springtime
AC hum in iced-tea twilight
Spinning
Zoysia grass between babies' toes
You laughing, and I:
The mad man, white beard laughing,
Praying in the shrubs
For the breeze to move the curtain
So that he may see.
Aug 10, 2024
Aug 10, 2024 at 10:14 PM UTC
I knew
Friday night TV light
Trailer kids
Bottle-rocket sizzle
Quick gravel crunches
Giggles behind a fender.
Day-night amalgams
Video poker and ****** fog
Sidewalk thermal vent nap-takers
Torch lighter hisses
Boulders sublimated to smoke
Toe-curling sigh
And crying at the dawn.
I want to know
Tree house daydreams
Kitchen curtain springtime
AC hum in iced-tea twilight
Spinning
Zoysia grass between babies' toes
You laughing, and I:
The mad man, white beard laughing,
Praying in the shrubs
For the breeze to move the curtain
So that he may see.
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