So elemental / photo by author (July 2022)

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Not everything is about him, I swear

Emy Bracco
2 min readJun 4, 2024

I am created mostly from fire

Accompanied by a strong gust of wind

Very little water, other than where it counts – from the moon to the outwardest of stretches to Pluto

And just enough earth for it to be my vital essence and real daddy energy

An energy I both despise but rather love

I create. I blaze. I am out of control. I am ardent.

A total wildfire of destruction

But sometimes there’s a controlled burn

To keep the forest healthy

Sparklers on the 4th of July

Live in my eyes all year round

Created my own fire

In a fierce lion cub

With a mask of a bull

And the moon of a virgin

The intellectual space of my mind

Like the nebula’s that take up space in the heavens.

That require constant stimulation

But not too much, cause then it’s too overpowering and it gets a little dizzying.

Bet you didn’t know wind could cut?

Let alone how deep

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Emy Bracco
Emy Bracco

Written by Emy Bracco

Writing poems since before I knew what poetry meant. Maybe, that's why I never kept a single one. Not until my heart broke open did I start keeping my words.

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