Fantasia: Firezone - David Beckman

[Larry Robinson]

Fantasia: Firezone

In the bedroom
we awake 
to smokedark
ceiling cracks 
and walk
upside down 
to the curtains.

In the kitchen 
we eat
burned fennel,
smoked ham 
and toast.

In the sink 
we spy two singed 
swans on a raft 
of orange sponges
then watch them 
fly through open 
patio doors
toward a horizon
dulled by ash.

On the deck
we take a toy train
on miniature 
bonerail tracks
past trolls incinerated
beneath Lego bridges.

In the driveway
we enter 
a blistered bandshell
where a chorus 
chants that to 
the northeast
an inferno
is 10% contained.

In the garage 
we test the
air purifier,   
re-inflate 
the zeppelin
and stock 
firewalking 
boots rated 
at 500 degrees
Fahrenheit.

In the airship
we head west
to the Pacific
to join
a school of
of fire eels
and swim 
toward Japan.

	- David Beckman