Childhood epiphany:
how a magnifying glass
angled toward the sun
smokes a hole in a dry leaf.
I showed Caren – for
the sake of epiphany –
she needed one, or
two, or three – Caren
was the grade school terror.
She came to grief
at recess behind the trailer
(a shuttered mystery),
squatting in dead sedge grass,
with a fascinated enlistee,
lasering a leaf, utterly
enraptured. Flame, even!
© Monica Adams, 2021
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| Photo from Outdoor Life https://www.outdoorlife.com/how-to-easily-start-an-optical-fire-with-these-three-tricks/ |
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