Thursday, June 19, 2008

Fire Child


Would you skim through your breaths
Like a pebble flung across a placid stream?

Forgetting the eyes thirsty for just
A glimpse of fire in the sky--of fire
That walks among corn stalks leaving
Chaff in its wake.

She looks up singing, looking for the blaze,
The same inferno that rages within her--perhaps,
She is not alone.

Looking down on her rain-soaked feet, she wonders
How the sun loved the moon.

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