Forest fire melts leaves
like plastic, furling and falling.
Rabbit warren, a clay oven
hard and hot.
Smoke covers everything
luring, baiting
like a will-o-the-wisp.
The flames jump and dance
spurred on by the thudding
of a hundred paws and hooves.
Consuming anything
that falls before it.
A mother is trapped
protecting her litter
but the fire does not relent
until it reaches the river.
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