Author: Sydney Lea
-
FIRE AND JEWEL by Sydney Lea
Eighty-foot hemlock, spruce, fir, and pine– They kept lifting off their stumps like so many rockets, Smoke-trails and all. And I Beheld the fire cross-lake from where I drifted. I’d been pounding the water for bass when my eyes were lifted. Fifty years later, I still recall my thoughts, And how I thought that to…