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Dale Tracy

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poet | Derelict Bicycles (Anvil Press, 2022) | creative humanities | environmental humanities | she/her

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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My poem delights in its neighbours in the "Occasions of Climate & Nature" section of On Occasion @coachhousebooks.bsky.social
Cover of On Occasion: Poems for the People, Edited by Sina Queyras, on an orange backgroundFire, Fire
After William Blake

Fire, fire, burning bright, 
In the forests in our sight.
What mortal hearts or minds
Could act beyond and re-bend time?

In land, water, air, and sky,
Could we frame our symmetry?
Some have sometimes loved a liar.
But could some hands dare halt the fire?

And what caution, & what care,
Could twist the structures that we bear?
And when our plan begins to beat,
What held hands? & what moved feet?

What the warming? what the storm?
In what furnace were we born?
What the vision? what joy grasped?
Dare we loose its fierceness clasped?

When the fascists leave their forge,
And leave their names in ugly scorch,
Will we love the work we’ve done?
Will we make whole what was gone?

Fire, fire, burning bright, 
In the forests in our sight.
What mortal hearts or minds 
Dare act beyond and re-bend time?
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