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Fire Season
Simone Flournoy

I am burned and built 
And burned again 
An orbit of fires 
The venerated touch of a flame to foliage 
Undisturbed 
Adorned with the dust of dreams and placid existence  
History is not here yet 

Smoke always overstays its welcome 
The uninvited ash asleep on the couch  
Scorched landscape eerily silent in anticipation 
Awaiting permission 
To emerge in all its trappings and furs
A reminder that this earth was not always so Martian 
It never belonged to the embers; it was simply on loan from the oaks
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Simone Flournoy (CMC '22)​ is a senior at Claremont McKenna majoring in International Relations. She is a transfer student, previously studying at the University of St Andrews in Scotland for her first two years of college. Her work has been featured in the Helix Literary Magazine, the Fresher Publishing Anthology, Messenger Mountain News, and the St Andrews Foreign Affairs Review. When she's not in in the Inland Empire, Simone lives with her family, two dogs, and thousands of honeybees in Topanga Canyon.

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