First Date

oil on canvas, 22" x 22", 2007

Fire Trees
By:  Bryan Rye
 

What do two columns of fire talk about?
Do they boast about consumption?
Compete to see who can go higher?
Are their words the crackling and pops?
The smoke and the smell?  The heat?
Do they sway to entice, is it a game?
What happens when they realize they
aren’t fires at all, not even related
To blazes?  Do they smolder in ire?
Or laugh that we mistook them for infernos?

 

 

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