A god's blue fire gone, the man is left like a page in the grate, apparently unchanged. ~\shgray, granted, and somewhat curled at the edge, but readable. Readable, he thinks. Lintil the passage— cat's paw?—-backwash?—-up the chimney?
2012 October 3, Richard Kenney, The One-Strand River: Poems, 1994-2007, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 155