WILDFIRES by Gregg Norman

Wildfires by Gregg Norman

to think that fires in our Canadian woods

could send smoke to choke

a Manhattan cabbie

a Jersey gangster

a Georgia peach

tumbling gouts of flame fly

along a long fiery front

ravaging our green sward

belching a mantra OUT OF CONTROL

from around the world they come

in yellow suits and hard hats

to dance a haka in the fire’s face

pundits chat about cycles and change

but does anyone listen to the fire?

Gregg Norman lives in Manitoba, Canada. His work has been accepted by numerous poetry journals and literary magazines, including Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Dark Winter Literary Magazine, Borderless Journal, Synchronized Chaos, Book of Matches Literary Journal, Medusa’s Kitchen, Horror Sleaze Trash, The Littoral Magazine, MasticadoresUSA, The Piker Press, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Raconteur Magazine, and Suburban Witchcraft.