Fire Index: Poems Maggie Smith a university student heads home

a university student heads home after class

this exclusion could prove life-threatening

even if it means butchering everyone who stands in their way

A hydroponic system is your homegrown solution

and her days connecting vital calls between platoons and bases and generals

Fire Index: Poems Maggie Smith a university student heads homeFire Index measures the interior life of a survivor against the world she creates through her own fractured marriage, motherhood, and religion. Told in fragments, using hybrid and persona, Breitland confronts the trauma of her brother's death, her father's abuse, and the complicated relationships to her sister, mother, and womanhood. She reckons with her complicit, and often dishonest life, and how walking out from the burning construct demands her