Independence day
Fourth of July: fireflies flash, fireworks boom, the moon turns to fuzz.
Dave Bonta
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Fourth of July: fireflies flash, fireworks boom, the moon turns to fuzz.
Dave Bonta's three short lines set a single summer night side by side with two kinds of light: the natural flash of fireflies and the loud, man-made burst of fireworks. The poem doesn't comment on either one.
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