JUBILEE OF FIRE 

On the calendar

The rice paper

Burned

The match burned out

Last year is forgotten

The skin’s snake is lost

A new era imprints

Its tempo with a new breath

The sulfur crackles

A tenfold energy

Mane in the wind

Nostrils blow

Ashes and embers

The stride is legendary

February pulses

On the hoof the farrier

Grafted the shoe of luck

Today, with its burning bells, announces

A year with the pulse of a thoroughbred

The horse neighs powerfully

Its pyromaniac letters are engraved

Deep in the flesh

The beginning of a new era

Emerging from torpor

And celebrating the new year.

Celebrate your fiery horse

And run into the vastness

Geneviève Guevara lives in Belgium. She’s a very creative French teacher, poet, novelist, and painter. Writing is very important in her life and she organizes a monthly poetry festival in her hometown of Namur and a bimonthly poetry festival in Paris.