Todd Cirillo

A Sacred Space

There is something comforting
in the hum of people and the jukebox music
of a Friday night.
A liquor lullaby
that can soothe and strip away
the pain of the week 
and the disappointment of the world.
Like that soft return to the womb
people talk about after they have taken
a weekend yoga or regression therapy retreat—

but much drunker.