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 Katherine Soniat

The Fire Setters: a Sequence


DAY SPOOL


                       windchime

morning clings                  bells ring
wood deck      wood peck                hood red        ruby head

           meadowglaze              dew maze
                              dark blue lake rind

spunshine                sunfine                  mellow flint


                                 *

                       windtime

noonhigh    sunsquash
                                              spool slow            downflow
afterglow amberwash

                         dayslip   plum blip
         peargold                                     goddess old



                                 *

                       windchime

eventide
                        rainlight
                                                 lost flight
                                                                            cloud showers
                                                                            shadows tower

watermind
                        sunken light




                                 *

                       windchime

                       keeps time

hearts start          :           breaths part


                         birds go
quiet

First published in Midwest Quarterly