A Child Escapes a Burning Silo

Taking one last

jagged gnash at the stiff

splintered limbs

of the inanimate

saw-horse

we ride,

crushing hawkweed, shingling

into the deepset tracks

of upset cars.



"Funny how we find the past

like this," my old man says,

his front teeth

missing, his breath

whistling

through

the space.

© David Emery