Burn, a poetry written by Katy Santiff at Spilwords.com

Burn

Burn

written by: Katy Santiff 

 

Don’t you lay on down because its harder
now, because grain, you did not germinate,
no green fronding things erupting stuffing
from your casing yet–be patient with your
feet, they still beat, bound and wound around you.
Waiting and unfaithing are not the same–
you aren’t a seed that flays before the rain.
You’re an embolism coaled, heat
veining
up your segments, strapping you to crackling
cusps. A dark wind turns and burns your forest
down, the wooden things are screaming now,
fire nibbles at you, begging you to burn

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