You can tell by the fireworks.
To this day,
people’s hearts are set to the clocks
in their homelands,
far away.
They go off at different times,
then the smoke clears and the sky
remains mysterious and quiet until the next
full hour.
You can tell by the fireworks.
To this fateful day,
the last of 2020,
when the cheer is inaudible,
they still explode to the clocks
of faraway homelands.
Writer Between Worlds 