Monday, October 26, 2009

Third Portrait of Fire by Lorna Dee Cervantes


Last Christmas, a family of five
woke from their dreaming and
dreamed themselves over: the baby
in its pink pajamas, the boy
in the red flannel bathrobe
he grabbed from the door,
a mother, a father, and a sister
in curlers; all died

Very abrupt ending. Such hope accompanied by death is just insane

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