Fine Baby Grass on Fire
Furious pale winds
Blow from a smoky blue sky
Sinking talons deep into the earth's newborn covering
Translucent and burning
The front picture window gave way to the heat, sending shards of tinkling glass exploding across the empty room. Cut by the glass, I fell to the floor. I woke in the blurring heat and brought my hand to my face, finding a massive welt, puffed out like a sponge, bleeding. And I found myself by the window, staring out throught the empty frame. The open field breathed flames, rippling the fabric before me, as someone was standing there, in the distance.
A woman
Stood in the center
Untouched, naked
Motionless--flowing with the grass
In a torrid wind
Eyes closed
Feeling the earth
The grass
With her bare feet
By Todd Brock