A birthday party snapshot I found in an antique shop.
Reflections on a Crackerjack World
In the crackerjack world of default birthday parties
A five-year-old boy plays pyrotechnical
With the soft air of his little lung.
Flames dance like zoftig gogo girls
On the parapet
Of a cake purchased yesterday
At the industrial bakery in the A&P.
Our children
Perform split-second happiness for the camera
As we watch their wide eyes and their hunger tongues
Hold forth
On clandestine birthday wishes
We vow will only come true
If.
Lynne Sachs
February, 2012
Also found at the Saint Lucy Photo and Essay website:
http://saint-lucy.com/one-picture-one-paragraph/lynne-sachs/