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Wildfire

  • Writer: Maryam Ghouth
    Maryam Ghouth
  • Oct 22, 2022
  • 1 min read

‘Heal, heal’, they say, but

how long does it take a forest

to recover from wildfire?

80 years and longer.


Meanwhile, the forest floor breathes;

she finally sees

the silken sheets of sunlight

fanning her a breeze;


the nutrients from dead trees nourish

her soil like the puckered beaks

of mother birds offering up slain worms

for their hungry chicks;


pinecones throw open like maidens in heat;

wind-swept seedlings put out rainbow shoots;

hollyhocks rise from the ashes

like Cappadocian hot air balloons;


the charred remains of tree trunks,

proud like gothic castles,

provide shelter for the two-winged, the six-legged,

the squirrel and mink who make

their homes in hollow bark.


The wound gives.


 
 
 

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