Category: fire
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Haze
What is it about acrid smoke haze at dusk that makes you think of sandlot football family suppers and warm thoughts? What is it about burning leaves sock hat and gloves stirring dry leaves into a fire before you go inside? What is it about smokey piles dotting the neighborhood flavoring air like fog off…
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Arsonist
History is not for sure who designed Nero’s clothes what song he played on his fiddle if it was a top 40 hit or if he fiddled at all but they remember the stench of Rome burning History is not for sure about all of his infidelities or if he was incestuous who hung his…
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Burnt incense
No one wraps the news with a rubber band throws it up on your porch to read at leisure anymore Talking heads deliver it hurled in sound bites – abusive verbal beatings I receive mine from my news feed refuse to be yelled at by the properly coiffed and groomed Sitting on the porch reading…
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1/11 haiku
around a fire pitfriends ignore a threat of rainwatch wood become coal 1-11-20
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fireside
Late last night, after two days of rain a friend came by to build a fire and talk around your new fire pit Wet wood won’t burn so you add charcoal fluid paper scraps and old cardboard Hoping a fire will catch and burn water and sap sizzle and pop flames dance and smoke rise…
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Alchemy of a Dream
Standing outside a large room waiting to be called When your name is called you step inside the whole room applauds Suddenly, you don’t want to be there because you know You know who is not there and they are more deserving of accolades You step outside sit on a bench and dream You wake…
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East to West
yellow light on hillside coming through the trees …..promise of dawn yellow light on hillside coming through the trees ….. raging midnight fire 11-3-19
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