How Scientific is Firefighting
Brain lit like a barn
dance a logic born
in image allergic
to one version of wind
and chance I wouldn’t
call it science the advent
of how we twig what
will ignite and what does
it feel like to be else—
a draft in each house
and the stones in smoke
confused with light
Carey McHugh is the author of the full-length collection, American Gramophone (Augury Books) and the chapbook, Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds &c. (Poetry Society of America). Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, and Tin House, among others. She lives in New York.
