Thursday, October 31, 2019

Wildfire


Unsplash photo by Benjamin Lizardo

WILDFIRE

It's hot.
It's dry.
A spark:
a fire.

A flame
a burn
a blaze:
a pyre.

It threatens,
spreads,
consumes,
gets hotter.

The only thing
it fears
is
water.


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2019


2 comments:

  1. Terrific job with this, Mary Lee! Real life monsters are the scariest.

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  2. Nice work! Your rhymes work so well, I sometimes don't even notice them. They make the lines just seem right.
    (Mine are forced and stick out like a half-burnt snag after the fire has leveled the forest.)

    So awful to be watching CA burning again this year, knowing that this isn't going to get better over the mid-term, but worse.

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