fire season
wooden skeletons forgotten
tree-lined mountainsides
waiting like matches
for the flame
that will inscribe
scars on the landscape
lit by the foolish hands
of billionaire predators
tree-lined mountainsides
waiting like matches
for the flame
that will inscribe
scars on the landscape
lit by the foolish hands
of billionaire predators
Josephine Raye Kelly earned their BA in Literature from UC Santa Cruz. Their poetry has been featured in Chinquapin Literary Magazine and The Richmond Anthology of Poetry. They live in the San Francisco Bay Area where they are continuously inspired by botanical beings and pop culture.