GOAT CHEESE POEM

Not for there to be fire, consuming

everything entirely; we leave that for

the sky, who always has the right

to a wisp interrupting a plain expanse, or to

partial darknesses. We leave it to

the tectonics to arrange the vistas,

knowing full well not to trouble if at no height

can we turn in a completed circle. We already know

there are no perfect circles in nature,

nor in art. And there is no conflagration,

either, only the searing trail

of a flame glimpsed behind a closing door.

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