• crackle,

    the little black tip
    cackles a burning
    melody. the woodflesh
    swelters
    in the day light
    heat, giving birth
    to orange demons
    and the sky is coloured

    ochre, the plague of flames.

    crimson
    light falls
    like rusted tears.

    it
    leaves behind a cold
    frigid black, smouldering
    to sickly, pallid ash.

    finally,
    the match is dead.