Sean Brendan-Brown, _Firefly Pepsi

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Firefly Pepsi
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This is our night, Laurie
& I porched and through horse
nettles and redroot pigweed
the speckled luminescence
as a hundred lustful bellies

blink off-on. The air stinks of mown
perilla mint & mustard. Laurie tunes
the Lloyd's to ancient AM
Permanent Tear
bedridden mother hoots--
a Junebug in her hair
brown & ugly
Laurie brings down to show me.

Laurie catches
a firefly, accidentally
ruptures the green bulb,
contrite then playful
dips the beacon into her Pepsi.
Then we hear the mother's
drawn-out curses: she hates
Laurie's cat Klyde.

"Stop it Klyde!" we shout,
laughing. Don't know what Klyde
is doing, don't care--probably ripped his
carpet-post & she thought chair-back
but Klyde quit doing that
once we told him it was our house now.

Laurie pumps up
Permanent Tear
we kiss, pungent slick
taste of firefly Pepsi.
Do you   she asks
                     yes...
        inlove
& all our children
on some star.

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Sean Brendan-Brown
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