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enjoy this Brandon S. Roy writing in the Down in the Dirt free 2011 PDF file chapbook: Ghost (click on the front cover image or the title text to download the free PDF file)				You can also order this as a 2011 6" x 9" perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book! Click on the cover spread for the book Ghost

The Burning

Brandon S. Roy

In their younger years
her husband wrote fire letters
in blood cut with ink on cloudy
paper that would make her grin and
tear her eyes.

Love was not subtle to them. It grew
from a grain into a wild bush leading
to a sandy beach that licked their
feet with its fiery tongue.

Her finger thumbed the letters dully
She thought her husband must be in a
good place now. The bend and cringe of
the paper scrapped her hands

The candle burned brighter as she lit
each letter. The paper folded and melted
to black ash that swept the kitchen table
the smoke released the lover words to heaven
at least now she had a sense of immortality

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