to smolder and smear:
everything serviceable
as kindling— paper, wood
shavings; promises, lies,
joss sticks, posturing.
The hard become soft,
treasure of coal with its heart
of burning coral. Blown breath
in the cupped half-cove
of darkness, fire in the belly
that must never go out—
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