Paper Airplanes And Dragonflies Poem by Robert Rorabeck

Paper airplanes and dragon flies are the
Code words I tell my seventh period class:
Code words for spies
And blue cars
That fall asleep and make love together
Not far from the sea
And underneath the overpass—
While mothers clean the linoleum;
They are beckoned backwards by the slender sleuths
Of their youths,
As fireworks are stolen from underneath the noses
Of baseball games—
And witches float and spin in the sky—
Beautiful delusions
Making love above the parks of Michigan—
And when it snows it is like
Fire that warms the churches and all of
Those grottos—
While boys as young as I am wait outside
The schools they never go to—
Waiting for you to come out to show even the smallest
Diamond of flesh to their naked eyes.