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I feed it one regret at a time. They catch slowly, like wet wood. But they catch.

(After the fire has died once. The second lighting.) angithee 2

Outside, the new world runs on gas and fury. But here, in the bowl of this angithee, a different arithmetic: one coal + one silence = one small, stubborn dawn. I feed it one regret at a time

The first angithee taught me ash. How a flame, even cradled in clay, even fed with sandal and ghee, still bows to the ceiling’s dark. It taught me patience—the slow suicide of coal, the way a red core lies to the eye while the hand finds nothing but cold. (After the fire has died once

Because the courtyard remembers. Because winter returns with the same dry cough and the same name, whispered from the neighbor’s radio, from a half-shut door.

I build the second hearth on the bones of the first. Not for grand warmth. For the thali of embers that outlasts midnight. For the story that refused to finish burning.

The match strikes. One hesitant blue tongue. Then the slow orange eating its way inward, like a secret told too late.