burning bright*
fierce is thy flame

thy passion beckons
as it burns

softly you smolder
and i am overcome
in yellow silky smoke
and sibilant orange

a moth beguiled

the memories thou beckons …
fiercest is thy bite!

—8/24/2020

* “Tiger Tiger/burning bright” is in homage to William Blake.
From his poem,The Tyger, Songs of Experience (1794)