Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Bone Fires

These fires are the size of small continents.
These fires create their own weather. They spawn fire tornadoes. They build pyrocumulus.
They make lightning the way trees make seeds.

These are not normal fires. They leave nothing in their wake. No wreckage. No bones. Just ash.
These fires suck air from fifty miles away
and leave you gasping. These fires smother an entire city with smoke.
These fires can choke you from a hundred miles away.
Smoke from these fires girdles the globe.

Fire can kill you faster than COVID. Smoke can kill you faster than either
or slow, slow scars in your struggling chest.
Fire can break your heart. Smoke can stop your heart. COVID can eat it away.

These fires call for a different kind of mask to save your breath.
These fires call for a different kind of hero to save your life.
These fires are burning on the bones of the dead.

Books Available
Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare's Stable
High-Voltage Lines
Knocking from Inside

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