THE FIRE INSIDE (WHY I WRITE)
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Jefferson Adams
Jefferson Adams is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. His
poems, essays, and photographs have appeared in Antioch Review, Blue
Mesa Review, CALIBAN, Hayden's Ferry Review, Huffington Post, the
Mississippi Review, and Slate among others.
By Jefferson Adams
Published on 05/21/2002
It takes blood to make blood sing.
--George Ella Lion
I'm pyromaniacal, chronic
lighter of secret fires,
bellowser of words, forger
of desires, &, from base parts,
wild alloys, charged
with hard sparks-
primed
to leap from this mind
to the mind of another.
I live to craft traps, set
idle for years, waiting
to sear, scar, or better,
start a slow burn
in the heart, hunger
for more metal, blood
pleading to ignite.
Copyright © Jefferson Adams, 2002. All Rights Reserved.
I'm pyromaniacal, chronic
lighter of secret fires,
bellowser of words, forger
of desires, &, from base parts,
wild alloys, charged
with hard sparks-
lighter of secret fires,
bellowser of words, forger
of desires, &, from base parts,
wild alloys, charged
with hard sparks-
It takes blood to make blood sing.
--George Ella Lion
I'm pyromaniacal, chronic
lighter of secret fires,
bellowser of words, forger
of desires, &, from base parts,
wild alloys, charged
with hard sparks-
primed
to leap from this mind
to the mind of another.
I live to craft traps, set
idle for years, waiting
to sear, scar, or better,
start a slow burn
in the heart, hunger
for more metal, blood
pleading to ignite.
Copyright © Jefferson Adams, 2002. All Rights Reserved.