Summer

S
     talking about the need to devour
     what have we for lunch
 'xcept for a comic strip
 or a deserted launch
          of some rocket some
                         where;
     I hunger for fire
                           in flames
            and dazzled bits
of burnt wood and
whole terrains filled with
                     nothing but frozen lilies
              sizzling to non-
                                     existence;

     who can quench my hunger
                                                                      s