Fire

I. Its base is transparent periwinkle. Then grey, white-yellow. It has no edge. 
II.  Singed eyebrows, too short eyelashes
III. roasts marshmallow- slightly golden or black, bubbling, charred 
IV.  CH₄(g) + 2O₂(g) → CO₂(g) 2H₂O(g)
V. The lava that comes out of the onion volcano at P. F. Changs. 
VI. blackness it its wake. Starves, branches bare, crumbling. Weeds spring, feed on death. 
VII. A protest, torrents of orange and red engulf a monk, legs a triangle of steel, robes turning to ash. 
VIII.  Casts romantic shadows on the walls, permeating pumpkin spice, midnight vanilla.
IX. Flaming bombs: the maimed limbs of fallen soldiers. 
X.  These sit in rows, under the shadowed dome. Eloquent, twisted limbs of naked angles. pools of inky wax. Weeping mothers light them. Jesus is serene, eyes cast down, palms out.  
XII. The soul of a hot air balloon, floating higher, endless sky. 
XIII. The cauterizer of a bleeding gash, the smell of roasting human flesh.
XIV. With a pop and the pungent taste of kerosene, it leaps out of a gilded lighter, I <3 Mom. 
XV. Dead, steaming, dampness. 
XVI. The skeleton of a house, melted iron. 
XVII. California's nemesis 
XVIII. The caveman's un-numb toes and strings of steaming animal 
XIX. A droplet of orange, shaking. Elongating. Growing and dying. The wind's tango partner.
XX. A throbbing lymph filled soar, stinging. Hastily inserted into a purple plastic cup of ice water. 
XXI. A god. Circles of chanting people, holding hands, dancing around the leaping swirls of orange.