Flesh raised with blisters
with ashes and embers as lessons
a young child dreams, speaking with fire;
his words will be felt like a full-thickness burn.
Age eight, three a.m.:
the vision unfolds as the familiar fist hits;
pain draws the boundries.
The future is foretold, the narrator speaks
of the word to become deed, that terrible seed:
an act of the child, the growing monster
that match for a smoldering city!