Treat the Flame

As if the whole inferno. It’s a melodrama

for any gambler embroidered with bells

on her vest who knows if you over-attention

your syntax, every surface is fustian at best.

The sound played is of many foghorns.

All the time I had been dreaming of lost prisms,

the hand’s plumage and drift. This is one reason,

I think perhaps I drowned in so many puddles

posing as rivers, the eloquence of mirrors.

You are right to detest your inner pyro.