What if a firebird wasn't a firebird

but rather something more diminutive?

Our heads full of myth,
blinded by his fuel-toned plumage.

What if a firebird was really

more like a sparrow or a bluebird?

Buoyed by sheer exuberance
until it starts to smoke

and after, we read

power in shadow, and happiness in char.

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