April

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.