This New Sensation

By Avery

Did you even wonder
what fire looks like
when it is afraid?
It curls
like burning hair
recoiling from this thing
it hates

Me, myself, and I

But now it's under the heel
of my boot
It can't flee
no matter how it's hands pull
at my hair
living silver snake hair
and my eyes
which drink it down
an elixer of heat

Now that it's imprisoned
in the blood
on my sword
It screams
that it's cell walls
are gummy
like those little fruity bears

How strange
to think
of blood
and fire
as candy