KEITH BURKHOLDER - HE BURSTS INTO FLAMES

Keith Burkholder has been published in Creative Juices, Sol-Magazine, Trellis Magazine, Foliate Oak Literary Journal, Poetry Quarterly, New Delta Review, and Scarlet Leaf Review.  He has a bachelor's degree in statistics with a minor in mathematics from SUNY at Buffalo (UB). 

He bursts into flames


​He is a writer,
He thinks to himself as he writes,
It is nighttime in this town where he lives,
He thinks really hard to himself and then bursts into flames,
The fire around him is really small,
Nothing in his home is damaged,
Rain from the sky falls on him,
He is wet and the flames disappear,
What an experience for him,
He gets up to dry off,
Will the phenomenon ever happen to him again?
There is no concrete answer to this question,
Let the future behold such an answer,
Take care, my good man,
Continue to write and let fate decide the future for you,
Bye for now,
Take this experience in with great strides,
Carpe diem.