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Sitting on tinder,
the sun shining bright.
Not sure where we’ll
be sleeping tonight.
Forced evacuations,
grab what we can.
The air white with ash
like winter again.
Smoke clouds the skyline,
slurry falls like rain.
Hopes for containment
predicting no gain.
O blow wild West Wind,
like ghosts we disperse.
Lives may be salvaged,
memories are cursed.
David Feela writes a monthly column for The Four Corners Free Press and for The Durango Telegraph. A poetry chapbook, Thought Experiments, won the Southwest Poet Series. His first full length poetry book, The Home Atlas appeared in 2009. His new book of essays, How Delicate These Arches , released through Raven's Eye Press, has been chosen as a finalist for the Colorado Book Award.