Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

The Day Is On Fire

"...So many eyeless men, such a wild chorus of trees..."

Grasshoppers burn and wind bleeds with black smoke.
We wear our hands as little rags of flesh.
So many eyeless men, such a wild chorus of trees.

Everywhere fruit tumbles and rolls, torrent of apples,
grapes and pears as if we were made of silk and clung
to the walls, as if nothing had changed. The day is on

fire, sun burns its path across the sky. Only now we
can see how home has broken apart, how walls and
towers lean crazily, all the wires cut. Out on the horizon

marching fast as rats, the armies of golden moon approach our town.

Article © Steve Klepetar. All rights reserved.
Published in the March 10, 2014 issue .
Image(s) © Livia Vorange. All rights reserved.
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