Kit Kelen #1411 - life is a bit too exciting just now (on the day declared 'catastrophic')

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life is a bit too exciting just now

on the day declared ‘catastrophic’

white sky

blue through

waiting for the wind

fire’s motto runs

‘until there’s nothing left to burn’

last night on the screen

where loss is ash

and this is the news

moon of an eerie colour

it’s breezeless

smoke stands in all things now

now it’s indoors

we ourselves soon

cruel as fact or weather

how many days are a climate?

white sky

blue through

waiting for the wind

stands all around us

self-made wraith

for fear, for greed

fools won’t join the dots

it’s as if smoking had taken us up

and every animal bemused

wallabies eat the last lettuce

bats flap in the walls

it could all go today

no dark might do

smoke thick and thicker

getting ready to go

having heard of the burning spears

of the freight train unrailed

of the all towards us

just a little cough

could be biblical

white sky

blue through

waiting for

a speck

a mote

grit in the eye

how little a cinder

we’ll make of this blue

parallel lines never meet