Zywa
Homesafe
The hearth protects
the fire, and me against the fire
the house protects
against the fire from outside
the men and the boys
who flare up everywhere
in the flanks of the houses
they want to come inside
rage and beat to death
and then, with dry eyes
extinguish in ashes and impotence
that is the danger
to my inside world
of kitchen and bed
where I veil
my dull days
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