Panic wears off
Lake life returns to retro glory days
Of teenage boys hanging off of jeeps
Holding soda pops
And teenage girls lounging
under canopies giggling about the boys

The disappearance of
ten high school kids the spring before
stings the town less and less

Runaways, the police said.
Impossible, a mother hissed.
she felt her son alive.
but not a runaway.
The ache of her breastbone told her so.