when the fire spoke when the fire
rounded up the usual parasites out of
their homes and proclaimed their
homes open land for any to rape and
level and claimed this was retort for
their alleged envy of homes
resplendent in fire-worship
when the fire spoke when the fire
moulded and grew a tree seed from
darkness face of the deep and when
water was released from the dam and
the sun from its cave and all of this in just
about seven days many would
grow tired ofsuch endeavour but fire
unsatiable and unperishable fire that
is cannot labour in creation
when the fire spoke when the fire
opened fire on the eyes of three
hundred deserts drenched in molten
gold the usual parasites couldn’t
surrender their minds to the thought
of an illusory caritas rather it was
clear that fire saw reality much like a
chessboard and humans much like
chess pieces
so they asked fire to present them
with the proof of a burnt bush the
body of which they would use to
touch fire and see for themselves if
fire was indeed fire and not rather a
game of lights and shadows yet fire
outsmarted them by bringing them
the gift of a dead tree whose corpse
had grown for a million decades after
creation and such tree harboured
within itself the knowledge of
whether fire burns indeed the skin of
nature
and once they had eaten from the
fruit of the dead tree they proclaimed
fire does indeed burn and needs
henceforth be venerated all without
knowing that what burns away is not
nature’s skin but fire’s plastic film laid
alike a blanket to keep waterkin in
perpetual states of daydream
when the fire spoke when the fire
washed adrift the remnants of many
who wished to recollect air and
scatter it through spheres available to
all dreamers
when the fire spoke when the fire
creeped through the ocean floor and
the gargantuan roof of the sky when
fire found its way from the earth’s
core to the core of the sky when fire
found its way home to the heart of
the sun which is beyond any ethical
dilemma and is bent to preserve its
flame until the very day that flame
consumes everything it has given
birth to before
and now they go though still they are
in waiting for a new line of command
recited to them like the line of a
mind-bending poem
still they are vague and undecided
whether to bring with themselves that
same dna call of fire-worship onward
to the next red star as they were
bringing forth a judgement to them
given premature
when the fire spoke when the fire
said: gather round me o children
even universes of un-beings stood silent
and as fire waved time and space
together as a cobbled thread and then
undid them to show how order and
chaos answered its way and its way
only
wrinkled against the soft curvy matter
of the reasonable quivered our
atomness
(From Fervor Modernus)