the fire arrives

Posted on June 13, 2022 by istsfor manity

Cloud Shadows

A smoke-choked sun recedes
Cloud shadows darken the hill
Blacken the grass before the fire
Arrives—its ravenous destruction
Before the attendant rebirth

What I’m Reading:

“The sun so overpowering it is like night
in daytime. Seeing what I live with
only when my eyes close.”

— Linda Gregg / “Return to Paros”

About istsfor manity

i'm a truncated word-person looking for an assemblage of extracted teeth in a tent full of mosquitoes (and currently writing a novel without writing a novel word) and pulling nothing but the difficult out of the top hat while the bunny munches grass in the hallway. you might say: i’m thee asynchronous voice over in search of a film....
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