A Memory of May
A 150-word personal essay
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1 min readMay 2, 2024
How long does a Mayfly live?
My mayday memory hovered under wispy wings hidden for seven decades. It alighted, unbidden, around a maypole on a playground behind Lafayette Elementary School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The year, 1948.
Delicate dancers in white dresses pose in a circle around a flower-bedecked pole. Each holds a ribbon — pink…
