The Bushfire - I
Firestorm steals daylight
apocalyptic red sky
beach sanctuary
The Bushfire - II
Demon embers search
ahead of fearful terror
for new disaster
The Bushfire - III
Smoke choked horror air
grim angry wrath advances
consumes all ahead
Rob McKinnon
Rob McKinnon lives in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. His poetry has previously been published in From the Ashes - A poetry anthology in support of the 2019-2020 Australian Bushfire relief effort, Maximum Felix Media, Wellington Street Review, Sūdō Journal, Sage Cigarettes Magazine, Re-Side Magazine, Nightingale & Sparrow Literary Magazine, Black Bough Poetry, Dissident Voice, Tuck Magazine and InDaily.