you summon tinder
midnight tendrils approach
a coil of parched broken wood
meek and beset in gloom
power and life encased
usurped and dethroned
bolt shut by wind and rain
that paints your skin
your departed hide
a parasitic white
twitches and flakes like falling talc
chilblained limbs
clutch air claw flesh caressed by icy blades
your work is judged
the sky an eye
you stare back
its pupil a chasm
you grip your flint
black and insurgent
the gales contend to
lacerate your knife
and you strike
metal against stone
a dazzle of spark and cinder
a lustrous display of orange and white peacock feathers
an explosion of hope and life
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