Where bushes periodically burn, children fear other
children: girls
whose scornings are flint on dry rock
which—don't we know—is all the heart afforded
a certain type: untended, magnifying boys.
oh fickle lens! oh smoke and smoldering beetle!
oh thwarted desire in foothills of brush
and now flame.
CAMILLE DUNGY
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