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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