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Show Oh Say Can You See? 36 We waited some more, eating apples and crackers. " I t ' s got to be time," he said. My neck crabbed. I looked at the sunrise. "There i t i s , there i t i s , " he yelled. I saw the flash, but mostly my father's face and his brass buttons that seemed to glow red for one instant. "That's how I came home to you, everybody. Just look at that power." The cloud flowered, mushroomed, turned i t s e l f inside out, and poured into the sky. Red f i r e burned in the middle of browns and greys, colors that hid the red almost. But i t was there-the f i re burning at the center, the red f i re that charred the North Wind's puffed cheeks and squeezed eyes until i t blew i t s e l f away, t r a i l i ng black smoke and i ts pride. It was there in the middle of the rising columns of earth and clouds boiling over, clouds bursting into clouds, whipping themselves inside out, changing colors over and over. Red, yellow, and black, colors from the f i r e . Grey, brown and biege, sand from the desert floor Daddy said. And then the picture blurred at i t s edges, unfocused i t s e l f into other shapes-smoke arches, long floating strings, dots and dashes. In no time at a l l , everything floated away, on the j e t stream Daddy told us. " I thought i t would last longer," I said. "Won't they do i t again?" Daddy laughed. " I t ' s time to go home now and get some hot breakfast. Wasn't that amazing kids?" Everyone who had gotten up to watch the blast talked about i t in school that day. "Did you see i t ? " Our desert land had been chosen once again for an important government project. |
