Woke up to End of Days, the sun an angry ember in an asbestos sky, the only thing not on fire, and still death to breathe– woke up to a burning throat, eyes wet but even that moisture went– woke up to a sunset at dawn, a dead day, smoke following us as far as we could flee, South, West, the sky never got right– that sick yellow hue of a blister– we kept all […]
Here another summer day like any other just like any other and between being left and leaving I know which I prefer– Unsettling wind I wake to news of fire on the butte and the power gone out and KOZI off the air and level 3 orders to get out now and a pile of dead goats at a ranch that burned overnight and horses run off like open-ended questions– Only a slight haze, here, a tinge of regret, chagrin, I am far away, […]
OPTIONAL POETRY 