DAY 22: KATE GREENSTREET, You Say Our Love is a Forest Fire

collage by Lilly Pereira
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KATE GREENSTREET


You say our love is a forest fire

half open

our burning open

page

your broken open sleeping

longer each day

hours just dreaming of the luggage

woods are burning down the words

you turned to speak

say ours

in a language I can't read

you

shoulder it

for hours

say woulds are

burning up our metaphor

in black and white

half closed

you turn

say

why is it so hot in here

you sit and sit and sit you say

our love you see it

burning far away

“You say our love is a forest fire” was made for the opening of Lilly Pereira’s art exhibit at Flying Object in June 2012, a response to her collage “Circular Ruins.”