Evening time sirens
chime
& recede
somewhere in the city
& fires elsewhere
request attention
& dozing on
your daybed
I can only imagine
others’ summer thirst
a firehose fountain
erupting in a neighborhood
a blackened block
where houses stood
a smear of ash
on someone’s face
orphaned townhouses
beside waste ground
a truck
searching streets
faraway addresses
on its way always
to places
not yet
extinguished
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 27, Issue 4.
David Mohan has been published in The Cincinnati Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Lake Effect, and Measure. His poetry has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and won the Christopher Hewitt Award. His first pamphlet, Wildfire, was published by the UK-based Against the Grain Press in 2023.
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