REMNANT: FIRE

							Around my house
            Fires:                 (what have I
                                        (what
             flares at the edge of the yard.
           at                                night
                               Murdered:
                screaming
           the cops                         won't
                  at night         glittering at the edge
           they said             --a nice nice person

                     but they killed
                               "oh, she's the loveliest
           witch                  Murdered women:
            what's my                      sin.)
              set           the                 mailbox
                       on fire, the cat
                 they burned crazy old Joan of Arc
               the cops won't
                                      it's 1997
                            a spark on the roof
             a warning            at my door the charred
                         it's 1997!  What's my
               A spark,                        on the roof,
                                ablaze,

--Mary Winters