Fireworks

I have never seen a firework show that I didn’t enjoy.
Something guttural applauds
the carnage of the explosions;
it makes you roar with awe in the fury of brilliant
destruction,
and it moves the finer nature of the human soul
to closer examination,
till it is quieted in the ending hush of
sound and fleeting summer light.

Andrew Venegas
San Jose
SJSU
poetry