Poem: “In the Fire” (#guestblogger)

For what it’s worth,
and for what it may be,
I say that you can be charcoal,
stripped to black –
– only don’t let them see.

A. R. Frederiksen is a recurring guest blogger here at BnV, and her own writing blog can be found here, where she dabbles in flashfiction/poetry and reflects over the, much elusive, ABCs of writing.