there were fires. Fire after fire.

For millions, 

for hundreds of millions of years 

there were fires. Fire after fire. 

Fire raging forest or jungle, 

giant lizards dashing away 

big necks from the sea

looking out at the land in surprise—

fire after fire. Lightning strikes 

by the thousands, just like today. 

Volcanoes erupting, fire flowing over the land. 

Huge Sequoia    two foot thick fireproof bark 

fire pines, their cones love the heat, 

how long to say, 

that’s how they covered continents 

ten lakhs of millennia or more. 

 

I have to slow down my mind. 

slow down my mind 

Rome was built in a day.

listen to it here

[Gary Snyder {1930- } 'Wildfire News', from This Present Moment]