Hearing the Fire

 

“Sound of Fire” by ademilo

(Originally posted February 2014)
 

 

loud whoosh-whooshing flames
smother ambient sounds
burning brain gases
hissing from open-cocked jets
geriatrically triggered in
cochlear coils blotting out
the sweet noise of nostalgia
the concert that otherwise
rings with red rhapsody
memory music internally
broadcasting anthems of
cool supple youth but the
blistering roar of the fire is all
that old age-punished ears
are allowed in this vascular
prison of stultified senses