April
From the collection Catching Dusk With Our Teeth
April
Catching dusk with our teeth, we claimed April as our own.
as We
laid on our backs languid in youth
fervent in self-importance.
The trampoline sagged beneath us with
the weight of our choices, our words in our pockets.
lacking nothing and knowing everything except that:
18 species of fireflies
exist in California and they flicker so dimly we didn’t know they were there.
Except:
what would happen tomorrow.
Except:
what would happen the next day or years later when
vows were made in haste and broken
broken in hopefulness and desperation and selfishness; broken. in.
we caught April in our teeth before we watched from afar.
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