The fire continues to burn
A tablespoon of honey
Warm water
Late evening
No desire
Fire continues to burn at the fireplace.
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burn
Staying Up Late
What’s come over me–
Staying awake past midnight?
I burn with purpose.
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perspicacity
sunlight flecks on the
terracotta burn with
singed light lit embers
on pervious surface
perspicacity
of geography and
muse pyre to lost
conscience
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Fire
There really are endings,
kisses framed on hollow streets,
poetry placed in splintered doorways
—A fire on the bridge,
and wind,
I saw it coming,
I let it in.
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grey
Thoughts swirling
Disembodied
Burnt-out neurons
Escapee words
Wandered off
No one to
Notice
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Sunburn
I want to be closer
than sunburn on
your skin
deeper than light
your every movement
a reminder of me
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fogged thought
. . . swimming
fogged thought
. . . waiting
for it to burn off
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(SMOKE RISES–1)
smoke rises
from burning
bridges into
tide of night
after i chased
what seemed
wisdom to
gates of hell
then through
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(STEALING FIRE)
stealing fire
in another
language
could be
lighting
the world
or burning
the house
to hell in
any case
a flash
inspired
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(FROM LIPS INTO)
from lips into
blood
the kiss that
stings
though lungs
plummet
deeper than
sea
its burn as
you
and oxygen
run
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