Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The Feeding

Smoke on the horizon
can't be good. The sun turns
to blood, the sky, black. Flames
hunger for tinder-dry
grasses burnt by drought; they

feed on the fear coming
closer with each gust of
wind. Mile by mile, they get
nearer - how soon before
we see their teeth, gnashing?

(c) 2008, Karla Dorman

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