By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 4 June 1999

forest fire

aching for consumation
    could I be
  your reason
     to sweat
   your season
      to regret
 your lip numbing mind blowing nirvana
        to never forget
    let me try
      to get you high
    turn a fast hello
  into a slow good-bye
     see me
 as a sunset
    a deep cold pool
        in July
   I want to make your doubts die
         a brutal death
     take the fantasies from your head
           and give them
               breath

take me
try me
tie me
  to your
    tree
and carve the initials
    BFC