Seven Embers

Seven Embers is the ninth bundle in the Apropos: Epic Poetry series. These are the embers that have sparked many a fire in 2020: Black Lives Matter; Covid; climate change; politics; poverty; violence; intolerance. A fire can be cleansing, and it can also destroy. The poems in this collection were composed with the Words of the Day from online dictionaries, using the Pomodoro technique. They are the break-of-dawn word briquettes that fuel small preventitive fires in the mind, and prevent huge devastating ones from overwhelming us: a poem a day keeps our sanity in sway.