part 15: floor is lava

floor is lava

alongside a
courteous
moon

on a planet
corseted
to a sun

are sculpted
manors with
layerless floors
burnished
smooth as agar

address your letter :
the immolatory fields

a devotional
path to
the scoriae

the blazing
hearth
a threshold
crossing
one breath
in and ash
ash

ask the
wallmakers
for your turn
when to burn
and learn
the igneous
forms:

soot and glaze
and eschar

no promise
of gentle things
slumped corners

for a moment
the cinders make
tender but then
again obsidian

the kindling
done the
kindling gone

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