<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">A Dream Of Burning</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">To lift this wanting up out of dead wood.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Something, someone reaches up to stop this rising</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">as though the movement up is treasonous.</p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">This wanting has been frozen, caught in the grain</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">of the fallen log for ten thousand years: Memories</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">of ice ages and mastodons.</p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">But in the wood is the dream of burning--of flames,</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">heat and tongues of orange/red/leaping up into</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the night, warming those who come close by.</p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">This wanting breaks open the wood. The sow bugs,</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">spiders, beetles and the invisible captains of decay</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">are relieved of duty.</p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">This wood is for fire and it is time to burn.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Francis Weller</p></div></body></html>