light / dark

tonight was sparkles everywhere, a world of glistenings and gleamings but for once not wet just shimmering surfaces, blinking lights surrounding our three bikes unknown but in a new silent solidarity lined up at the stoplight with our own lights flashing, riding in the darkly shadowed streets in the darkly silent beauty of night stars so many stars twinkling above and everywhere and that streetlight that blinked off just as i passed just as i hoped it would leaving me enough night to see the lights and the city below was pulsing and breathing off and on in ripples and everything was awash in bits of light like glitter scattered into shards of darkness.