Burn The Wagons…
It looked as though covered wagons
Had formed their tight defensive circle
To protect lives and livelihoods
During the long Oregon trail west
By early American settlers and pioneers...
It looked as though the wagoneers
Had been harassed by Shoshone warriors,
Their stretched canvas covers set alight
And wagons to the ground to ashes razed
By flaming arrows in a conflagration,
A terrifying, torturing, territorial blaze...
Pete Ray…
A piece of kindling added to the winter fire in the
Old Coastguard Hotel’s dining room, Mousehole, Cornwall,
December 2018…
It reminded me of a burning pioneer’s wagon in the
American West...
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