A Dream Of Burning - Francis Weller

[Larry Robinson]

A Dream Of Burning
 
To lift this wanting up out of dead wood.

Something, someone reaches up to stop this rising

as though the movement up is treasonous.

 
This wanting has been frozen, caught in the grain

of the fallen log for ten thousand years: Memories

of ice ages and mastodons.

 
But in the wood is the dream of burning--of flames,

heat and tongues of orange/red/leaping up into

the night, warming those who come close by.

 
This wanting breaks open the wood. The sow bugs,

spiders, beetles and the invisible captains of decay

are relieved of duty.

 
This wood is for fire and it is time to burn.



	- Francis Weller
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