Sunday, February 3, 2008

Kindlings


by t.o. crow

In the kindling,
you were the stranger
who torched my passion.
In the fire,
I forged you whitely
against a backdrop
of red-dawned skies.
In the embers,
reason engulfed me
and cooled the image
I had fashioned.
In the ashes,
you are the smoke
which irritates my eyes.

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