Glow

I'm mesmerized by the neon

and how it diffuses in the fog

a liminal glow, somewhere between

right now, adulthood or something like it

in the middle of nowhere, South Dakota
and the summers we used to spend

catching lightning bugs with our bare hands

and running at high speed with bare feet

I want to preserve the magic

in a peanut butter jar

but the magic tends to burn off

when the sun comes up