Poem by

KATE LADEW

there are forest fires caused by a million things

some of them people

and one of those million things

is sunlight through a water droplet on a dry leaf.

as you watch your house burn down and everything in it,

is it better to have a beating heart to blame?

or god, who made the heart and made the water and made the leaf and made the light

and poured them into the earth and shook until you couldn't tell one from the other