While you were gone….

While you were gone we stuck flowers in our hair and filled socks with sand — FB post by Kalani Kumarasinghe

Socks with sand and balloons with water

flowers in hair and shadows from petrified rocks

ashes that will fight to differentiate 

and dust that dances, sings and settles down

Laughter filtered from overnight rain

frowns banished to adultness unwished

floating scoops of ice-cream

find cones called forth by a clap of hands

policemen on roller-blades 

chase pedestrian crossings 

freed from the tyranny of tar

and the weariness of feet

was that a clarinet going higher than the highest tree

was it a squirrel that drew the curtains

was it the monsoon that’s curled in a mangosteen

and why couldn’t the avocado decide if it’s vegetable or fruit?

someone stuck flowers somewhere 

someone filled the balloons

someone alarmed an alarm clock

and a clothes line asked for tea