The earth's balding surface,
studded with burnt match tips,
wavers like a ball of mercury in the heat.
Luminescent waves crash
on green shores
of crackling chaparral.
Animals cringe against heat,
fur explodes in flames
like firecracker wicks.
Eyes loll;
cracked marbles
in reddened sockets.
After the firestorm,
the ground is littered
with bodies
now reduced to black piles,
sooted skin peeling from
ivory faces;
eye sockets wet
with softened marbles.
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