Cinders - Michael Shapiro

Larry Robinson Lrobpoet at sonic.net
Mon Nov 12 06:19:30 PST 2018


Cinders

With every breath I take

I inhale the ash of homes

where families convened,

the trees that exhaled oxygen

and gave birds a place to rest

I breathe in the Safeway, the Taco Bell

that exploded in the dead of night

and the remains of squirrels and spiders

and grasshoppers, who had nowhere to run

as flames surrounded them

 

A hundred miles from the fire

There’s not a cloud in the sky

Yet it’s still gray. And cold.

Two small birds chatter outside my office

They can’t stay inside today, 

or wear masks to filter the air

 

A year ago the smoke came from our county

The pall it created spread thick and wide

Today we inhale misery from far away

The singed dreams of our neighbors

Knowing that nothing will ever be as it was

But that from the ashes springs renewal 

 	- Michael Shapiro
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