"Fire" ~ Judy Brown

This poem was featured in the last Letter From The Principal that came home from Ellen's School. I like it.

 

What makes a fire burn

is space between the logs,

a breathing space.

Too much of a good thing,

too many logs

packed in too tight

can douse the flames

almost as surely

as a pail of water would. So building fires

requires attention

to the spaces in between,

as much as to the wood. When we are able to build

open spaces

in the same way

we have learned

to pile the logs,

then we can come to see how

it is fuel, and absence of the fuel

together, that make fire possible.

Comments

[Jill]

I like it, too.

[Bopp]

I like it very much as well