2 poems about fire


by an imagined flame

a clear
hot
day and like the gray
to be inside

to pretend a fire
for the scene
of
reading
even to imagine pets curled
around one’s satisfaction

oval rug
curves in the seating and the cycling
of
friendship
through it all

‘round the truth
and
to assuage the fear of what
might
have gotten to us first
and more

but by some
measures to regard
and
put in practice
for the peace in dealing
be it
clearly well or
adulterated by pain in the now
as
well as pain before

recalling
that pain is fear
as well


good fire

by the real flame
which
is not by
but
in
you know

if you’ve heard
or
you were made to go
to school to
learn the faith
and now
apply

and so the fire is within
traveling from heart
to brain
and back again for
more

normalcy or pressure in a situation
to share and to assuage by
every source
within us
in
the crisis
the source of fire
within
because we had it come from
without
to live
and to be standing by
like
orders issues so
long ago as to be by creation’s rings
when set and first called
good


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