<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=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;"><o:p class=""> </o:p>Flammable</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;"><br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">Like roadside weeds, dried<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">leeched of color<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">bleached pale, <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">foxtail, wild oat, rattlesnake grass<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">their thin throated rasp <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">and rustle lost in the breeze.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">Unheard, unseen, <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">men and women mass<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">waiting, fuel for the match—<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">the spark of anger<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">flicked into the crowd<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">leaps to life, becomes<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">a rolling wave of flame<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">roaring across the shocked land<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">thick air, clogged with smoke<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">the vengeful bones of those who burn.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">When they are but ashes<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">smothering the land<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">winter skies will weep<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">and in the spring <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">roadside flowers will blaze<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;">bright with color.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Lisa Shulman</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></body></html>