Hair on Fire

31 January 2026

https://poems.culturing.net/2026/01/hair-on-fire/

You are beautiful even with your hair on fire,
but not in the way you might think, or fear. It's your courage,
not your purity, that I admire. I have no need for idols,
I swore off them long ago, in a valediction to images.
You have that hidden song that embraces the shadow
as part of the whole. I would hear you sing it,
then master it, then sing it some more.