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To answer
your question, Mr. Hughes
it explodes
flings its syrupy shrapnel
beyond the neighborhood walls
hot with the day’s oppression
But later
much later
it locates its fragments
to weight itself against the night
It becomes
Mr. Hughes
the promise of every dream dreamed
It becomes
in the blackness
its own shining sun
Angela Redmond-Theodore
Angela Redmond-Theodore is a poet and storyteller whose work is inspired and influenced by her cultural and personal Ancestors. She earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Tampa. Her poetry has appeared in The North American Review, The Comstock Review, The Tishman Review, and Obsidian. She and her husband live in west central Florida.