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