Jubilee

[Mark A Becker]

Shadows hanging from the clothesline
in the shape of people.  Good opening!


Patio chairs set around,
champagne sticking out of ice. A more interesting way to say this than "sticking out of ice"?


Meandering piano keys 
playing lazily from the stereo. Another way to describe this? Like, "over the breeze".  "from the stereo" isn't interesting enough for a short one like this.  "over the breeze" isn't very interesting either, but I hope you get the idea.


Picnic blankets carried off by the wind
forming ??? clouds up in the sky.

I really like this one semi.  Don't think you need "up in the sky" in the last line though, since that where clouds always are, and you already said they were carried off by the wind.  An adjective ahead of "clouds" could help: I would suggest "multicolored" .