Fire That Thickens
Miller used his Crucible as a way of representing McCarthyism in America, he did not directly give the creatures name but alluded to it by using a recurring historical theme in America
That theme of mass hysteria and the persecution of ideas.
We are reliving
But under a different name
Fire that is feeding on oxygen
Continues to burn in our lungs
Burn in our nerves and muscles fibers
It refuses to turn into soot
Or to gray colored ashes
It burns because there are
mad eyed illusions still
weaving around us
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Poetry is important to my life because it gives me a way of saying things I never imagined were in me. My poems deal with all kinds of subjects, my attitude on today's culture, art, corporations, nature, etc. But these aren't the only things that I write about in my poetry. I don't have a favorite poet, but probably Michael McClure is the poet I have learned the most from, from his readings on YouTube.
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