Confetti
This time a friend brings tiny red hearts
whose beat our daughter dances through the house.
Shiny droplets cascade down the fig leaves
pool on the table around the sea glass
we've collected over a decade of summers
curl a trail along the bookcase edge.
They slip out through the door with our guests
our happiness clinging to their heels.
Days later we shake a trickle from the duvet
scoop up a handful from the warm hollow
of the sofa, disturb a couple
entwined in the bath.
Even now there's still one winking
from between the bedroom floorboards
another soaking up our conversations
in the crack on the kitchen table
another planted in my gardening boot
embedded further with each step I take.
whose beat our daughter dances through the house.
Shiny droplets cascade down the fig leaves
pool on the table around the sea glass
we've collected over a decade of summers
curl a trail along the bookcase edge.
They slip out through the door with our guests
our happiness clinging to their heels.
Days later we shake a trickle from the duvet
scoop up a handful from the warm hollow
of the sofa, disturb a couple
entwined in the bath.
Even now there's still one winking
from between the bedroom floorboards
another soaking up our conversations
in the crack on the kitchen table
another planted in my gardening boot
embedded further with each step I take.
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