Once in a white-out afternoon no school
bouncing bouncing from drift to plowed mountain
one layer two layer three layer four
sink into the warm snow sweating 

All is sky until the soft air whips by
bouncing bouncing off my head my shoulders
my hands hard-packing projectiles my eyes
scanning for a friend to destroy 

And king of all the rare daytime wishings
bouncing bouncing around my snowglobe head
remember to abandon the coldwet
for cocoa and mystery show 

the dashing the daring the juice the juice
drink in all I miss of the singsong world

Brian McGackin is the author of BROETRY (Quirk Books, 2011) and IN CASE OF DEATH (Not a Cult, 2018). He has a BA from Emerson College in Something Completely Unrelated To His Life Right Now and a Masters in Poetry from USC. He lives in Los Angeles, where he enjoys Guinness, soccer, sonnets, and comic books.