Roly-poly firebug,
round as a gumdrop,
alights on a jumper,
blazing like Lucifer.
She glows, all splotched
with hot coal dots–
bright button stitched
on a Sunday frock.
Haughty, gaudy,
she flashes her spots,
mincing slowly
to a gap in the cloth.
Missy shrieks,
& the gremlin flees,
the Lord’s Day igniting
with arson wings.
-Dan MacIssac
For 10 years I served on the board of the University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Centre. My poetry has appeared in many journals, including The South Carolina Review, The Malahat Review, The MacGuffin, and The American Journal of Poetry. Brick Books published my collection, Cries from the Ark in 2017. My website is danmacisaac.com.