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Last Night the Fire Engines By Dotty LeMieux
Last Night the Fire Engines Last night the fire engines raced up the mountain.One, two three four maybe five.Through our open windows we hear them.We watch for smoke, sniff the darkening twilight.That many fire engines, somethingis happening or is ab…
Last night the fire engines raced up the mountain. One, two three four maybe five. Through our open windows we hear them. We watch for smoke, sniff the darkening twilight. That many fire engines, something is happening or is about to.
We remember the October when Oakland burned. Another October rocked the Bay, leaving the Marina District in flames, tearing up bridges & stopping the World Series in its tracks.
You just out of surgery, shouting: It's the big one! Grabbing your saline drip as it rolled with the shaking. We brought wine and watched October's carnage on the TV at the foot of your bed, small and unreal as an episode of Law and Order.
This time the engines return before dawn no embers in their wake, no smoke in the air. False Alarm, we say, this time. Everyone has cleared their defensible space. The firebreaks have done their job.
This October we toast the miracle of life. That we survived, that no fires spark swift as bats flitting across the night sky. That babies sleep and forest animals return to their autumn rut safe among the shelter of the flame red trees.
By Dotty LeMieux
Biography:
Dotty LeMieux lives in Northern California, where she works helping people running political campaigns and practices environmental and tree law in Marin.
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