fire

[glimmerkirk]

can't hold the brightness
but pretend, glass about and
set a fire in you, set a fire in
summer nights of ceremony

we can't hold the brightness
it beams around -- dawn birds
little wound springs of notes
knitted into trees, set into motion

we set a fire in you.

doubtless there's quiet moving
in you, there's a smoke and river
fingers writing premonitions.
i want you to open your eyes right now --

we set a fire there.

i killed the snakes in the creekbed
your weeping a cradle we sent
and the blood and the oil, a sharp
reminder we are not all lawyers here:

we set a fire, here.

here in my bone hands a red curse
of mud and root, seed and promise
darling we're all edged iron and fire
but please get back to the house,

please get back to the house,

darling we set a fire here --

ash and rebirth are the least of our worries