Conflagrate or Remain

Wet sparks will never bloom
from initiation to termination;
a light gasp, a transient fray.

Friction, properly understood,
stops that which lacks the fuel
to consist.

Existence is a dead end quest;
frames rated by their pictures
remain a work for art.

Basis is the foundation
the beat heart
the head's spine.

A fire resets,
undoes,
refuses to build a house.

Be wet. Gather.
Hold rather than rub
both of these sticks.