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Ashes gather
at the bottom
of the fire
we have made.
It is a weekday
night like any other,
an announcement
of denial,
a death of desire.
Somehow our soil
and vegetation
must survive
without us.
Somehow we
want to die alone
and small.
We fly toward
this conflagration
like widows,
like moths.
David Radavich's recent poetry collections are America Bound: An Epic for Our Time (2007), Canonicals: Love's Hours (2009), and Middle-East Mezze (2011). His plays have been performed across the U.S., including six Off-Off-Broadway, and in Europe. His latest books are The Countries We Live In (2014) and a co-edited volume called Magic Again: Selected Poems on Thomas Wolfe (2016). He has served as president of The Thomas Wolfe Society, Charlotte Writers' Club, and North Carolina Poetry Society.