BURN

found a mirror to discuss
this dead of night game - with blood, balls, piss, and wine -
where a burnt out fire -sparks wafted heavenward -
vanished long ago.

With the heat of melting metal and running flesh,
fire said: "I knew you were crazy,
I'm crazy crying for you."
heat baking away sweat and tears...

as soon as they appear, one before another
one after another
each in turn striking matches
in the empty air.

Tearing down the power lines
to find more fuel
like it could be as cruel as anger
at the spark in every life, or every death, in every day.

Licking the sky with smoke and flames...

Bystandingly innocent
sucking in the cold night air
and blowing it hot like a midnight sun...
watch the woman run,

Breathing gulps of smoke,
breathing Phoenix breath
playing the game of death:
"Guns, heroin, money"

In a bed of naked red hot reeds
lain on stony dirt- better than sex.
A north wind blowing cold,
shouts filling the drunken air.

Grass smoke and wine fog
disappear in riding boots
running to a nightime star
resting on the hillside.

A constellation
mirroring the star sky, reflecting on
the falling women who danced away
the day the cameraman burnt his hand.

The weak night light of a dying dynamo
The edge of chill and heat, running to stay warm
running to enter and exit a burning tunnel
reflecting the heat, mirror-like, toward you.

Having no way through
the purging heat, you turn
to face the mountains
from inside a mouth of fire.

I run, click, click,
framed as a painting
in front of a womb of flames.
You stumble, fouled by heat,

you fall there
as someone stumbled down
the stone cold steps toward you,
as we walked away,

hand in melting hand,
to court more disaster,
a few flames in our pockets
for the journey home.



In a bed of naked red hot reeds
lain on stony dirt- better than sex.
A north wind blowing cold,
shouts filling the drunken air.

Grass smoke and wine fog
disappear in riding boots
running to a nightime star
resting on the hillside.

A constellation
mirroring the star sky, reflecting on
the falling women who danced away
the day the cameraman burnt his hand.

The weak night light of a dying dynamo
The edge of chill and heat, running to stay warm
running to enter and exit a burning tunnel
reflecting the heat, mirror-like, toward you.

Having no way through
the purging heat, you turn
to face the mountains
from inside a mouth of fire.

I run, click, click,
framed as a painting
in front of a womb of flames.
You stumble, fouled by heat,

you fall there
as someone stumbled down
the stone cold steps toward you,
as we walked away,

hand in melting hand,
to court more disaster,
a few flames in our pockets
for the journey home.





 
 

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