Cool Morning - edit, title change

[dukealien]

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Cool Morning


This morning I have lit a charming fire
with gas and electricity, but still
it flames in orange, blue, and saffron-gold
on logs of porcelain, with cinder screen
of glass; it might as well be video
but emanating heat and captive threat.

For as I go about my breakfast rounds–
the brewing, microwaving, counting pills–
that little blaze arrests my passing gaze
each time I turn my head and see it burn.
We humans have made fire our eager slave
like nuclear, but dare not let it thrive.

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Thanks to both critics.  To resolve the issue of just what the darn thing looks like,  I lit off that fireplace to see.  The flames are intentionally inefficient - it is, at least in part, an entertainment device - and shade from more blue than I'd expected, through pale yellow and fading into clear orange at the top.  There's no white - I think a gas lamp requires a mantle to get close to that.  The edges of the "logs" are demon-eye bright orange.  It's all electrons hopping shells and kicking out  photons, but artistically designed for an atavistic effect.

Concerning what kind of fire and what kind of slave, decide for yourself.