wildscape. literary journal

The Sun Woke Up Enraged This Morning
by Deron Eckert

after Renee Nicole Good

I thought the world 
was engulfed in flames 

behind me, but I know
the real fire is blazing 

all around. The red sky 
in my rearview mirror

is just a pretty sunrise.
Meanwhile, a fellow poet

is lying dead somewhere
cold as the drive before me,

gunned down by the government 
for doing something so simple 

as driving. And I ask myself,
what is there for us to do, 

so I answer by bearing 
witness to the still rising sun

following me and write another 
poem that could be my last. 

about the author // Deron Eckert