you can take it with you
by Josephine Jacobsen
2 little girls who live next door
to this house are on their trampoline
the window is closed, so they are soundless.
the sun slants; it is going away:
but now it hits full on the trampoline
and the small figure on each end.
alternately they fly up to the sun,
fly, and rebound, fly, are how
up, fly, are shot up.
one comes down in the lotus
position. the other, outdone,
somersaults in the air. their hair
flies too. nothing, nothing, noth
ing can keep them down. the air
sucks them up by the hair of their heads.
i know all about what is
happening in this city at just
this moment, every last
grain of dark, i conceive.
but what i see now is
the 2 little girls flung up
flung up, the sun snatch
ing them, their mouths rounded
in gasps, they are there, they fly up.
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That was really beautiful. Thank you for sharing! :)
That picture is priceless!
Wish that we could all fly with such abandonment.
What a great image and I love how the trampoline isn’t one of those caged in ones – it’s just like my own! I found you through Lana who just nominated you for an award.
This is like a glimpse at some eternal memory of mine overlapping your own, glimpsed in a rainbowed shard of mirror in some timeless afternoon.
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