Fire & Swee/at

Earned honest candy 
tastes the sweeter for
its candor--
accountability to 
the truth is a purple
purpose requisite 
in the bag, the vagaries,
the vanities, dried in
anticipation of the
bonfire that will 
give us a way to 
while away the 
days and minutes 
whose treacheries 
trap us on this rock,
this globule that,
outside of time,
demands we enjoy
its charms and wildness,
even as we burn it down.