fireflowers

An elder work, inspired by his muse "The Wisp":

fireflowers

I could learn to live amoung the fire flowers,
at least for a season at a time. Crime of passion,
sins of commission, omission and emission burning
their molten silver trails across tongues hungry
for a taste of the dark communion of lovers
and friends, blending desire with the will of children
breaking their covenants at will in random
captures of elusive emotions and experiences shared,
dared and bared within small corridors to be kept sealed
by the hearts that dare walk them against the tapestries
we would burn rather than show to the face of the crowds.


William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.

Credit for the word "fireflowers" to a dedication line to Pete Sinfield in Emerson, Lake & Palmer's album "Brain Salad Surgery".