Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Man on fire

I am on fire. 
My flesh is flame, 
insubstantial, light, 
heat, idea, incandescent
in the night of the mind.
I twist anger into the logic
that strikes the shadows
crowding close and hot
like a furnace penumbra,
armed with their analogies
whose crude similarities
stiffen with salience, 
solidify into system,
give basis to accusation.
I do not recognise 
their hologram indictment,
their ash excuse for a world 
of wrath and fallacy.
I escape between the bars
of the cage they close on me.
I am on fire. My flesh is flame. 

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