Summer Nights

I remember deep in the alley there was a place dark and obscure

that I saw after I witnessed an intimate embrace between two friends-

looking back to my favorite summer night before sophomore year

Alley against garage; garage next to basketball court

me and my friend sit by the grey fence as a bolt of lightning flashes

across the sky and in a dream I had later that night the bolt hit the fence

we were sitting against and I felt the jolt of electricity flow through my body

and in my dream I ditched whatever was going on to find the depth

of the alley, and I said excuse me, hostess, but I have other plans, and

I also said, to the boy playing basketball,

why don’t you come with me so that we can be alone

with whatever is in the back of my mind, during this dream

but is it wrong to know that I am dreaming, during a dream?

I ignore this fact in my profound

slumber to find out what went on during the party in that secret nook

and just as I see the wings on the angel and the horns on the devil

both next to the pickup truck in the alley

I wake up