Fire

Dusk in the forest
Eerie tendrils of blue light
Draw me in deeper

Smoky music seeps
Through these thin apartment walls
And pools in my ears

Smoke borne on the wind
Transporting me to the hearth
Of my childhood home

Our love together
Once bathed in fire, now kept warm
By an ember’s glow

Pin points of pure fire
Adrift in the firmament
Lit by the sunset

Crowns of barren trees
Dipped in the gold of sunrise
Turn to burnished bronze

The last light of day
Paints the leafless canopy
With an auburn glow.

A vortex of blue
flame howling in the furnace
as I gather glass.