Coughing up shady,
as criminal in hiding,
looms, bush fire embers.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the bush fires raging throughout Australia. This morning, Canberra woke up to heavy smoke wafting from fires around the state. It’s been a devastating day.
In captured moments,
yearns human, naturally,
hopes to make time—still.
Mourning adornment
in memory of the dead
slow-dying flowers
Arms wide, “Come hither!”
beckons the great mothership—
rooted in the ground.
Waiting patiently,
for life-defining sentence,
those courtroom benches
