Pinwheel

Firecrackers pop in bursts of white light and smoke;
a cymbal crash reverberates in air: mortality’s

the incubator of dreams. Steaming green beans,
or screwing a wrought-iron hook into a post,


I do not expunge the past but ignite the fuse
to a whistling pinwheel. A girl sways under
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