GRENFELL
TOWER
Smoke
rushing
skywards
screaming
swirling
burning
blackening
poisoning
roaring
roiling
sprinkling
light spreading debris sparkling
fire-wrapping
the homes flaming
flaming
the living core fire-wrapping
fire-wrapping
the furnace of families flaming
flaming
choking the children
fire-wrapping
fire-wrapping
blinding the babies
flaming
flaming
closer to the crying fire-wrapping
fire-wrapping
the people who perish flaming
flaming
suffocating the souls fire-wrapping
fire-wrapping
searing the skins flaming
flaming shriveling the hopes
fire-wrapping
fire-wrapping
the black skeleton tower
flaming
shaming
blaming underneath blaming shaming
Mail-ing
shaming blaming Mail-ing
lying
regulation stuff “get-stuffed” stuff regulation lying
underneath
ha-ha ha-ha “get stuffed” ha-ha ha-ha underneath
ash
and cinders cinders and ash
Ruth
Hartley
19th
June 2017
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