<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Words </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">white hot and insufficient</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">continue to fly<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the words fly</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">from the corners of</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">forgotten</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">not-forgotten houses<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">words</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">flame red and inconsistent</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">insist </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">on being said<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the words</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">insist on resolutions </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">vaguely made </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">sometime last … <i class="">do you remember?</i></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">that fall flat<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">jet black </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">and incandescent<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the words</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">refuse to be </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>lifted</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">refuse our reasons refuse to be used</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">the words fail us fail me fail October</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">yet <i class="">everyone is talking about the fire</i></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">my seven-year-old quietly says</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Amy Elizabeth Robinson</div></div></body></html>