along with its comrades
tuck it beneath plastic slipcovers
and hurl it into bruised dumpsters
after all it can’t rise
but if— and when it rises
shred its spine
and when the pages are left
cheer while lighting a conflagration
matches struck
pages hurled into the fortress of logs and flame
crumpling in perfect precision
into their graves
the words are burnt
and there is no more
a raw relief in the once charcoal-colored skies
even if a comma, a sentence,
an idea still linger, ever the seditious stranger
the next fire will be stronger
Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University's MFA fiction program. His stories "Soon,'' ''How To Be A Good Episcopalian,'' "Tales From A Communion Line," and "Community Time," have been nominated for Pushcarts. Yash’s work has been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Write City Magazine, and Ariel Chart, among others.
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