If I could hold the heat

G. Blake Harrison-Lane
Poetry Under Cover
Published in
1 min readJun 26, 2017
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If I could hold the heat
I feel for you in my hands
it would leave me a cinder.

With what strength might
I close the furnace door
a while longer until it has
learned to cool and take
kindly to quenching?

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