Ash Migration - Michael Shapiro
Lawrence Robinson
Lrobpoet at sonic.net
Sat Feb 15 06:15:53 PST 2025
Ash Migration
With every breath I take
I inhale the ash of homes
I breathe in the trees that exhaled oxygen
and gave birds a place to rest
I inhale the Safeway, the Taco Bell
that exploded in the dead of night
and the remains of squirrels and spiders and grasshoppers
and of people who had nowhere to run
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 breathe in 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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