After Watching Me Hang the Christmas Lights

Aaron Sandberg

source: jooin

The kid
next door 

told me:
if you

squint at
the lights, 

the house
would seem 

on fire.

Oh, Tommy—
I didn’t 

need to
squint at 

those strings
to see

my home
in flames.

Aaron Sandberg has appeared or is forthcoming in West Trade Review, Sporklet, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Abridged, Unbroken, The Racket, Writers Resist, Neologism, Yes Poetry, perhappened mag, Right Hand Pointing, Monday Night, and elsewhere. He lives and teaches in Illinois. You might find him—though socially-distant—on Instagram @aarondsandberg.