The Great Fire
The sky was a septic ashen gray
As if an entire town,
Somewhere far away,
Had recently burned to the ground
And this smoky shroud of impenetrable mist,
Wafted here by the collective exhalatory
Sigh of a few hundred survivors,
Was all we’d ever know
Of the sufferings of strangers.
12/23/21
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