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Fatal Firework
Project Type
Poetry
Date
January 2022
Sky Island Journal Issue 19
FATAL FIREWORK
(First published by Sky Island Journal 2022)
Tongues of tangerine stoke slow burn
as they lick her heels in anticipatory air
Static pops and crackles crawl up her throat
purveying plumes of sulfurous breaths
She flickers ablaze towards the milky moon
shattering to s-h-r-a-p-n-e-l-s and shards
splitting into splinters and burning showers
In a kaleidoscope of freckled luminescence
she disintegrates as stars on fire
They carouse in the canopy of her cremation
while heaven grieves in tears of pulverized debris
She - an evanescent extravaganza
is baptized to end by a fatal spark;
Thus transcending from
dazzling spotlights to lingering dark
While they wonder,
could there be a more alluring demise?