Forest Fire From Far Away

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Serena Alagappan poem reflects on the brutality of forest fires induced by climate change.

Red hole
in the sky:
scalding
coal in the
palm.

(mythologized
matchsticks)

that man held
fire: his scar proof
of courage. But the
earth boasts no
injury. Is pride only
bred from wounds
self-inflicted?



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