Conflagration

By Brian Burns

She moves like gasoline

shuffling over broken

match floorboards

wearing scratch pad slippers

I sit on cracked leatherette

the colour of crushed charcoal

entranced by the flicker

behind emerald eyes

Sparks falling from

the crooks and curves

of a mischievous smile

Sitting here

eager kindling

waiting to burn

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Brian Burns is a prize winning poet based out of Orangeville.

He is active in several local writing groups and enjoys reading at the odd open mic.

IG: @brian.burns.108889