The Spiral Stairway - Jonah Raskin

[Larry Robinson]

The Spiral Stairway

 

The   spiral stairway

went  nowhere,

though it once went

from ground   floor to

second floor   before

the wild   fires  that

taught them what

wild really felt like, 

what fire really looked like,

when they evacuated 

in the   night, managed to

take only their cat, 

her computer

and their car which took them 

beyond the flames in the  

forest bright 

brought them to safety and the 

memory of that spiral stairway 

that conveyed them up and down 

for decades with cat, with 

computer and the sounds of the

forest now stilled by the fury 

of the fire.



	- Jonah Raskin
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