matchmaker from river styx

they met at the bonfire faces lit and lively against this light both looked better after dark we watched the show unfurl they were oblivious to the rest of us drawn to each other like cats to flames alley cats that is we made jokes about it laughing too loudly for we had beer and we were not used to it October football had confused us we were not ourselves but neither were they the bonfire laughed as the trickster that she is with her yellow, red and orange flames popping a matchmaker from the River Styx