The goose and the firebrand
 threatened with incineration,
  their fate randomly written
across the woodland

A blast of heat hits her,
she rescues the goose,
a reminder that a muse's
 power has no limits.

Ignited by a careless
woodcutter, the tinder
here already from the
infestation of mountain pine beetle.

The sprinkler pipe on loan
to the muse, from Mormon
farmers to wet down the
goose migration corridor.

Writers of today will see
fire behavior situations
that they've never seen
in their careers.

The muse comes from a
surge of wind and flame, sifting
through charred trees, looking for
the carboned wings of the goose.

The muse's expertise in fire ecology
estimates regrowth patterns,
counts lodgepole pine seed wings,
leaving a blueprint design for future diversity.

The poet, to start to renew,
serotinous and open only
when heated, a poet's insurance
policy that the poet will start renewal.

As for the goose, mother nature is
her primary manager, life in the woodland
is self-priming, a blackened forest 
from fire or oil refinery soot is a distraction.

 

Copyright 2006 Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist, brainchild of Sage Sweetwater Creative Properties, flagship of Stone Creek Woman