what is the sound
of California
brushfire burning a home?
drums snapping
erratic clap. clap. clap.
neuratic clapping.
or do you go deaf?

cold blood draining
ears to protect a
primitive pulse chasing flame
, incinerating.
Heat.

softest blankets
breakfast bowl and scratches
in the hallway
to ashes from embers
screaming up

gods billowing.
crackle in a headstone:lone
structure standing by
daybreak,
sunsoaked elegiac rebuttal: you?!

are not in control.
bend bothknees and
Go
blind. mouth open.

MOUTH OPEN!
Like
mine.
be natural.
devour.