The prompt from Kat McNally, prompter from August Moon -
Day 6: on fire
What are the signs that you are on fire?
Burn with me.....
Silence seedlings rise from deep in our belly
Their song shouts above rattling pots and pans, plates and glasses
Their song illuminates shrieks of laughter and conflict and transforms
All into a lavender love, a peachy orange moon blossom
A quiet neon light demanding attention right here,
right now, in all its gold-green--licked rightness
The seedlings are evident in poetry fires,
In storytelling competitions,
In holding babies and rocking the tears from both our faces
In that moment
- no translation is necessary,
No explanation, no figuring out, no excuses simply
Seedlings
Reaching from the low grumblings of our belly
Making themselves seen through my blue eyes
And your brown eyes and our hazel eyes
Seen through my scar-woven countenance
Seen through these words you read, you beside me
Wherever you are -
These are the signs.
We are on fire.
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