Burning Pornography in the Woods

Burning Pornography in the Woods

Have you ever seen an albino
groundhog or built an entire city
out of sunlight?
Ask what burning meant, a hand or two
cupping a toad, this new naked witch,
charred and wrinkled,
Breasts heavenward, her back an editorial.
We burned
that woman in the woods,
or rather the likeness of that
woman, naked, paper, and tempting
as a plump apple.
I laughed at the sight
of her fiery consumption, I was only ten
(my accomplice ten as well)
just playing
with a different doll,
nothing like building a house,
nothing like calling the dog
to save us from the groundhog,
alone we brave, two little girls
burning pornography in the woods.