Reflections on a Crackerjack World

 A birthday party snapshot I found in an antique shop.

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/