Burn Zone
A metal bird flies overhead
A machine,
Dropping a payload
From the sky
A speck of blue
Against a midday sunset.
The trees are still here
Leafless evergreens, dead and black
Burnt hairs on a tanned scalp
An asphalt firebreak lines the former forest
Cars pass on by.
Posted Jul 14, 2021, 1:56 AM UTC
yeah this is dismal, and cool. My feedback would be to consider the capitalizations per line, as it slows a reader up in some spots(“Dropping a payload /From the sky” for example)