Beautiful Party

Bright laughter
Spiced colors
Foreign languages
Dancing with each other

Fuzzy music
In the background
Husky secrets
Between one another

The awaiting door opens hello
And gushes out family and friends
And near the end it does the same
Eating them up again and again

There is a sizzling feeling of content
Reverberating around like an aura
There are kids running around like popcorn
Dancing underneath the bubbling lights

There is no end until everyone's left
And the house has digested its fill
And the cars go out into the night
Scattering candied memories down the hill

It had been a beautiful party
Though no one would remember that
Sprays of yellow orchids on every table
Trembled and balanced like mobiles

Sweeping calligraphy of the place cards
Lost without a moments appreciation
Birds of paradise, white asparagus and Hollandaise
Polished and composed
Rearranging themselves with every exhalation of a guest

In the morning young men had worked
Wiping the dust from the leathery leaves with damp cloths
A fresh coat of whitewash was out high on the wall
The effort had gone into the evening

There is no dancing, no band
It had been a beautiful party
Though no one would remember that