Fire … !
Christopher Nagle
My wife is running a pop up art show in Melbourne showing the work of three women, ‘Las Amigas’, one of whom is Marian Therese Rennie from Acheron, near Eildon Wier.
The Painting, ‘Fire’ is in memory of Black Saturday in 2009. I was inspired to write a poem to accompany it …
Flaming up
The searing surf rolls through
To plunge and rise again
In arching pain
Which crisps and crackles
Roars in raging thirst
Drinks and sucks the life it burns
Flaying flesh to naked ash
As living trees writhe and crash
Crisped to blackened wisps
That rise in glowing spumes
Of shimmering wind and fumes
Borne streaming screaming howling
To the starless night
Above the super heated storm.