Behind Old Smokey
by Rachel Hoyt
image by Keerati via freedigitalphotos.net
When they named me Smokey,
Do you think they knew?
Did they set that spark free
To shift blame to you?
What if mitigation
Is just a nice myth?
What if propagation
Is every thing's pith?
Word around the forest
Is that you don't know -
Flames don't die, they just rest
While smoke steals the show.
Copyright © 2014 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.
(Some researchers at UCSB inspired me
to wonder what Smokey would say if he could see
the results of their wildfire study.)
