Independence EveryDay


Celebrations

Morning wakes hours before its city creatures.
I see light through the shutters:
cool insides while their clapboards communicate color — 
hydrangea pink, hydrangea blue —
to the morning.  Slate gray street, 
a herribone brick sidewalk. 

Couples inside, 
coffee darker than their peignoirs.  
It’s a holiday.
The 4th of the seventh month, almost mid-summer,
almost tipping over. 

I like to think
they’re in their temple of freedom 
in bed talking or kissing,

their call to arms
their own defense 
of our freedom.

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