Monday treat!!!

The Usefulness of Fire

by Alysia harris

I ate the words

warm from your mouth.

So wet they couldn't burn properly.

I lit other candles.

Opened a bunch of ovens

around the house

and wounds.

Baking or cauterizing

until the walls slid away from each other.

Until we slid into each other

and didn't know where to pull from

to disintegrate.

Smoke pouring from

inside. How do you hold it

like a pregnancy,

when your center is a flame?

Can I really incubate ash that long?

I've had no

success with phoenixes.

Midwives, warted by wisdom,

told me that is what I should pray for.

Brilliance, Light, Rebirth.

Isn't the bird a kind

of tearing too,

a ripping down of sky

after first reaping itself?

Gather all the candles together,

the ones for reading,

the ones for heating,

for loving by.

See if they can't burn down your voice,

if they don't make of you a bold barren

absence.

See if there

is anything left

they didn't

suture.

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xxoxo

WOW... thanks Yaki for sharing this.. it's awesome.

I've had no
success with phoenixes.

^ haha.. cool one :P

Lucky for you you're human...

hehehe

NICE. I like it.