THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH PAPER BURNS

for the Freedom Bookshop

At 451 fahrenheit or 450
or a little higher or a little lower
paper combusts. Though its contents

may send the thermometer gun
racing up through russet, cerise
to white. Paper burns fast and fires

can come quickly out of control.
If a bookshop were to burn
the metal stacks would buckle

under the pressure of the words
burst into scalding smoke,
scorching the walls, refusing to choke.


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