“Before the Fire” by Christopher Raley
April 16th, 2008 § Leave a Comment
That night lightning flickered over the foothills.
Thunder clouds suggested rain and then denied it.
What terrain was laid down between us? And how?
No two could ever maintain such a distance
as in the rumple a sheet makes between naked bodies
or the sound of promises rolled across the canyons
or the flashes of erotic revealing only
two people staring at opposite walls.
On the last clear day
spirals of smoke stabbed the range
and their plumes drifted south
like signals of blindness.
