sentiment…
One of the lesser meanings of the word,
if you care to scratch that far, refers to
“things that makes sense” – e.g. church
bells tolling on Christmas day, mom &
dad pressed close in the kitchen, raking
pine straw at a quarter a pile, reading
A Separate Peace and crying as Finny
fell, and cheerleaders’ bloomers – i.e.
confetti in time’s parade that fell brief
on our faces, like waking that Sunday
in May to find snow on the lawn but
by Monday the nonsense was gone.
