Kit Kelen #155 - making summer safer

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making summer safer

'there's always nowhere it can go'

winter dry

to begin

take a firestick

from the fire's remains

set it at the scrub

seems straw

it's hard how nothing catches

have to work at it to start

I love that blue beyond of dusk

then suddenly away

we make a sun after it's set

it's in the blood

fire is a pulse

runs like a child

its any old way

lets you know

that you're alive

that so much more could burn

smoke frantic with some green branch beating

a kookaburra shifts one tree

fire spreads like consciousness

day to night

and here's between

a dream of fever

like a sick child

needing to be nursed

till sleep

should have had wet hessian

in the still

before the rain

at dusk

when dew's to fall

and still expected

light fenceposts

for a birthday cake

the country's infinitely old

glows

with this little grass we've set

to show the sky a thing

and so it won't be summer burning

last round

for the darkness

just to check

our fires

are put

to bed

*

it's morning

when the rain sets in

and when you see

you've never burnt enough