a light within

There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild.

Julia Baird, Phosphorescence

even in deep night now
a wild glow  rises
as an unearthly anti-mist
startling even the stars

things are no longer
as they were  the unholy
alien haze embracing all
like an eternal bushfire

there are so few dark
corners left in the world
encountering yourself
happens alarmingly often