Manifesto of Fire

Red, Red appeared, appeared and blew up.

Metal, heavy pushed and shoved, but wouldn’t break.

From every direction came hissing.

Hose got caught on turns – it seemed endless.

It seemed. It seemed.

You must flow the water higher.

Higher.  Higher.

And you must cover your face with the oxygen mask.

And maybe is hasn’t burned everything yet at all: it’s just that you burned.

Orange flame after orange flame.

And after this orange flame another orange flame.

And in this orange flame an orange flame.  In every orange flame an orange flame.

But that’s not good at all, that you don’t see the light: in the light is

where is it.

That’s where it all begins.    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .

With a.    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    Flame.    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .

My manifesto was inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s “Seeing”.  I developed this manifesto through my passion of being a volunteer firefighter in the Bellerose Fire Department.  This is my depictions of the first time I was in a fire and what I observed.  I followed Kandinsky’s form strictly but recreating a fire scene instead.  One of the strategies used is manipulated light to create a vivid image for the reader.  This manifesto builds into its surroundings and show the reader what should be happening.  This occurs when I wrote how the water should be on the fire and the firefighter should have an oxygen mask on.   As well as having a single word at the end of the manifesto which in this case is the cause whole fire.