Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Guadalupe Salgado Partida

Fire (Here God Speaks Flames)


driving through the mountains, grey smoke emerges, and the road long 

and wide is so small for the indomitable strength of a strip engulfed in fire 

the wind’s gust ribbons that would often whip my window—quiet in reverence 

and the habitual rhythms of the semi-trucks come to a complete halt lingering 

in silence; everything quiets down, even the clamor of the people and from 

a distance, I can see how the flames destroy everything on the hillside 

and how fire, too is god of death and at the same time is god of life


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