The Fire
Mother cried softly
to herself afterwards,
while sister pretended
Nothing was happening
and dumped her boyfriend
on the phone,
while I sat before
the computer and built
a poem like a fire,
first stoking, then rising
to enter it, while father
fled this burning house
like an arsonist.
-Cyril Wong
Happened to chance upon this poem. Remember being
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