fire looozer! WHERE?!? 010302 ... chiidi burning from the inside forever and a day 010302 ... spoons 9th grade science... that class was awesome 010610 ... madness let it compel you to devour me let it bleed out through your eyes let it draw you ever closer to me I'll be the oxygen together we'll explode scatter our embers in the sand and melt into eternal glass 010801 ... the eye night and day 010801 ... the eye "oh suck a hungry yearning burning iside of me..." 010802 ... corrected vision umm, "such", that should say "SUCH"... (this is what i get for typing in a darkened room five minutes after i wake up) 010802 ... madness hungry to suck the burning from your lips 010802 ... pilgrim Substance dissolving The lumencent gasses writhe Unraveling Molecule by molecule That that once was compact And whole Mingling it with the sky at large Ash and smoke Heat and light The Ancient Beast Salamandar In your taming We rose above all other beasts Mankind Magician you have now become Do not forget the dark days That lay before that time When fear and death From cold and claw Did stalk us where we hid We vanquished foe Cave Bear Saber-toothed Cat And grew in Reason To hold back the night Thanks to taming Fire 010802 ... lulie If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what REALLY throws you into a panic. (says Jack) 020217 ... silentbob Maybe_i'll_catch_fire 020220 ... jinx I'm an aries...a fire sign. When I'm sitting near a fire, most of the time my eyes are watching the flames dance. They're beautiful. I wish I could dance like fire. 020220 ... belly fire I'm starving because I haven't eaten and it feels as though my belly is burning no one understands not one doctor and my mother watches me from my bedroom door and wishes something could be done to make me stop complaining everyone grows tired of my hunger pains 020723 ... belly fire it rages it rages in me it burns hotter and hotter when they find me they assume arson for I will have set myself on fire and burned myself to the ground watch me watch me burn I will come for you in flames inflamed 040224 ... the eye charcoal, bitter ash and toxic resin in the shape of my shadow the reek of gasoline and lies 050810 ... tender_square my neighbour packed the pit with kindling he gathered sawing buckthorn thickets. he’d given me a homemade firestarter: a portion of egg carton filled with dryer lint, wax, and pine sap congealed together with two upright match heads. the bark and bits were dry and ignited quickly, and the wind gave breath to sparks and made tongues of flame. cloud covered most of the afternoon sky, and woodsmoke undulated like a rhythmic ribbon to meet it. i moved chunks of hot dead limbs with hands cased in welding gloves, threw heaps of twig and layers of tree skin above the coals and ash. i kicked a fallen burl turned knotted ring and hesitated—to save or to burn? funny how those bands only arise when a part of self is cut away. eternity and promise haven’t meant what they used to, even though he implores me to remember. i cast the chestnut circlet to kindle and watched as the form collapsed in on itself. 221016 ... tender_square i have not brought a propane stove; i don’t own one. my friends assured me that i could cook meager meals by fire, and i have the steel cookware to prove it. a worry punctures my plans; what if the kindling won’t catch? back when he and i used to have backyard burns, we grumbled over the placement, arranging and rearranging smoldering logs, antsy until the flames became pyre. i haven’t ever done this alone. and the lack of a witness brings the bitterness of failure to my clucking tongue. i light fragrant squares of pressed cardboard and wax. i throw a few pieces of crumpled paper towel in for good measure. i fan the smoke with the spine of my gratitude journal willing flicker to flame. the fat of the light havarti in my grilled cheese congeals to something soft, not quite melted. the red pepper jelly, a splurge, brightens each mouthful of spongy bread. i snack satisfied in my camping chair. the red pepper and tomato soup brings a fierce indigestion which has me searching for the last of the chalky tablets in my medicine bag to neutralize the scorch in my chest. 230911 what's it to you? who go blather from