Fire Pit
  Benjamin Vogt

The maple, a week ago bare,
bones honestly among us,
now covered in green,
shy in its
unconscious shadows.

It shifts, burns
like smoke seeking
out the air to heaven,
riding hand-currents
which brush aside

the cool spring night,
made warm by
dead limbs melting,
by bones giving up secrets.
I have held in my entire life.

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