In the darkest time of twenty-four hours,
His name is carved in a cement wall.
Sweaty palms with visible calluses
Grasp a pocketknife and start to chisel
Wrapping his arms around your narrow waist,
Midnight sways you side to side.
Dangling from invisible strings,
Stars turn slowly in a cobalt sky.
And not once in these Carolina nights
You remember the night they
Forgot to shine
Corduroy summers and sunscreen winters
Are all left behind in Mrs. Ford’s homeroom class
And sixty-two sophomores jammed in one back yard
For the sixteenth birthday of
The governor’s son
I’ll remember black Kawasaki breakdowns
And Hemi-powered Dodge Rams
When they spell your name in the back of
My high school senior yearbook
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