Cauldron Anthology Issue 5: Seer Cauldron Anthology Issue 5 Seer (1) | Page 14

Pyrography Kristin Garth Previously published in The Ginger Collect A glowing of tendrils, amber, iris aflame, this pirouette, light at midnight, once had a name. Mesmerized, one dark eye, remnant of life, immolates, at first sight, virgin, midwife. Reminder this kindling once was alive. Difference extinguished in smoke survives. They tell of your twinkling, the height of your blaze. Porcelain ash begets their perpetual haze. They can shake you from hair, disseminate your heart. One eye memorized, an iridescence tattoo — biography inside pyrography. You ended on oak. Their flicker remakes a girl into fire transcending the stake. 14 Cauldron Anthology