Texas fires
I cannot say enough
about
the fires in Texas
and how those
who can
should fight them
toward containment
and cessation
and then
the multifarious care
of victims
and how
those of us who can
as in fight fires
go there
and those of us who can’t
remain behind
to offer aid
and give it from
where we
might be
it’s fire
folks
and politics aside
it is a horror
a series of horrors
from what burns
and who’s caught
in the way
can't say enough
because it's time to act
c l couch
photo by Michael Held on Unsplash
All Fall Down
Horses caught
In California wildfires
I want to care about
The rest
Humans hurt and houses lost
Land that will not recover
Easily if at all
But I wonder if they were freed
Or caught on the wrong
Sides of fences
Were they kept in barns or stables
Or were they let free
Could they run from
Terror
Irony
It’s in their veins, the capillaries, the
Marrow of their bones and nuclei
Goading
Their extraordinary muscles
Gifted by Apollo to
Own the sky
Then what is left
When hair and flesh
Are burned, and bone at last
Fails and falls into ash
Will all unbound furies merge
As all mortalities
Risie into heaven where
Animal innocence cleanses all,
Teaching human souls
To gallop, how to dance
In resurrection
C L Couch
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