wildfire

Wildfire


Fire, we fear flames seeking to obliterate
to cleanse forest and planes and the land
can grow again a new cycle begin.
There are flowers that only bloom after
a fire, got a name too, ephemerals can
cover mountainsides and hide ancient
ice-age painting in my beloved Peru

We are strangely attracted to to flames
wish they could rinse our sins
but we have great terror of hell's fire

We do dread the fire in humans heart
passion can be wonderful but also
ruinous and manifest itself as greed
there is no wildflowers blue and yellow
in Ukraine this year