Wild

…and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.
1 Corinthians 3:13

Heat, fuel, oxygen: ingredients
easily
           managed,
                              easily tamed. Elements
abundant since long before
there was talk of war, of famine, of
plague—eons
                            before we bore the capacity
to influence Earth’s incorruptable
                                                                  majesty.
Light-bringer, healer, warmth-giver,
killer
           of night.

Easily unmanaged,
easily untamed.

Smoke from the California wildfires is spreading 3,000 miles to New York City [CNN]

Christopher Greer lives in Alpharetta, GA. His work can be found in The Blue Mountain Review, Canary, Clarion, Poets Reading the News, Visitant, and other publications. He holds an MS from Purdue.

Photo by Marcus Kauffman