Burn
We friends have a burn party. Torch divorce papers, card statements, parking tickets, things with dark associations from last year.
We release items into the bonfire with weary rage.
Tomorrow, demands continue. Alimony? Salary cuts? Booze?
But now papers crumple. Flames rise, moon eating shadows.
We inhale smoke and relief.
- © Yash Seyedbagheri 2020
Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University's MFA program in fiction. Yash’s work is forthcoming or has been published in WestWard Quarterly, Café Lit, and Ariel Chart, among others.
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