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I didn’t fully consider, when I began this month under one title, how elemental fire is. Heat. Light. Sustenance. Terror. Comfort. Passion. Death. Rebirth. Often, I’ll follow an instinct without knowing if it will pan out. I’m grateful this one… Read the rest!

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Architecture of FireXXIXAlways
There is an end
Always an extinguishing
Always
No matter how long
How far
How deep
How wide
It rages,
It ends.
It will always end.
We don’t know it when it’s happening.
We don’t … Read the rest!

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Architecture of FireXXVIIIGo out into the night
Look up
Count the stars in Orion’s Belt
Pull your collar higher
Entwine your fingers
Take the long way home
Linger in the last breath of winter
Until you
Slide between… Read the rest!

The post Poetry Month – April 29 appeared first on Lindsey Lane.

Architecture of FireXVIIToday she testified.
Today she put some fire in her belly
And a lot of words on paper
And went to the pink granite building
in the center of Texas
to testify.
But first, she had… Read the rest!

The post Poetry Month – April 28 appeared first on Lindsey Lane.

The Architecture of FireXXVIWhen you take away our books,
The fire is coming.
When you take away our neighbors,
The fire is coming.
When you take our right to love whomever we want,
The fire is coming.
When … Read the rest!

The post Poetry Month – April 27 appeared first on Lindsey Lane.

Architecture of FireXXVWhen she fell in love,
She left her parent’s home
Which was kind of normal
Then she left her friends
Which was a little odd
Then she stopped watering all her plants
Which was troubling
Then … Read the rest!

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Architecture of FireXXIVInside a cabin in the woods
Standing on a brick pedestal,
A squat
stubby
four legged
prehistoric alien,
Potbellied with a door that creaks open and
a long cylindrical neck craning up and up and up … Read the rest!

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Architecture of FireXXIIIThe space between them was huge
It was filled with spiky slivers and pokey twigs and jabby sticks
It was a tinder box ready for one spark
One misguided word
One message not left
One possibly … Read the rest!

The post Poetry Month – April 24 appeared first on Lindsey Lane.

Architecture of FireXXIIShe is a terrible star gazer.
Orion’s Belt is her go-to star cluster.
She loves how they mark the unreadable night sky and hold it aloft,
Like pants,
which makes her laugh.
After that one astronomical … Read the rest!

The post Poetry Month – April 23 appeared first on Lindsey Lane.

Architecture of FireXXIThe note she scrawled to herself said
The cardinal @ the top of the tree
Not very remarkable as words go but
The bright red bird perched on a very tall
Sticking straight up branch
Struck … Read the rest!

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