There Is Fire

When the world around us

is exploding

with disbelief

and willful ignorance

while the truth

is on TV

for all the world to see,

smoke rises.

Smoke rises

from the classrooms—

our social media

experts.

Smoke rises

from sidewalk cafés

and picket lines,

engulfs a righteous nation.

Smoke lingers

until there is blood

in the streets.

            And, as we know,

where there is smoke. . . .

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"There Is Fire," along with "I feel naked—," is included in the Winter issue (Vol. XIII, No. 1) of Third Wednesday Magazine, a quarterly journal of literary and visual arts. 

Eric