Ash writes letters on the stove’s black mouth.
I read them before they cool:
a, then m, then the rest of a word
that meant stay.
By morning, the grate is only iron again,
and I am still practicing the sound.
Ash writes letters on the stove’s black mouth.
I read them before they cool:
a, then m, then the rest of a word
that meant stay.
By morning, the grate is only iron again,
and I am still practicing the sound.