burning
(adjective)
1. the feeling of white-hot emotion that causes you to shake, bones numb with fury and destructive desire
2. cold nights with friends. saying things and then never mentioning it again after the sun rises
3. letting go and screaming to the sky with hundreds of other hurting people, all held together by music and lyrics
smouldering
(gerund; adjective)
1. a quiet sort of anger, the bonfire yet to explode, the clarity of the world in a silence so powerful the crystal-glass-clarity is about to shatter
2. starting to burn after water, after the rain and the floods. shaking off the words like knives and the mockery like ashes.
3. the shot glass in a bar made from layers of stone, seconds before it’s pitched at a wall with a resounding scream of “no more.”
