Volcano Day Susanna Herrman

From her burns the smoke of ten thousand fires Escaping into the night and racing over hills The ash eclipsing the sun Swallowing the earth and the sky and I My flesh smoked like meat My ribs braised for her perusal Skull bleached so that she may Mount me on her finest mantel Lured in by the lights like a Speck of life led to an anglerfish Deep out of the dark like Jesus’s star Like an apparition The specter of a thousand suns Glimmering through her own ruse The smile of Vesuvius Tearing apart the heart of Pompeii

This is how I fell in love