Web 57DHYAFZZFLXG June 15 2026 A Wood Fire Scans His Reviews

A wood fire scans his reviews

In cave man times an asset and viewed

As a necessity to convert raw meat

Into edibles as an antibacterial feat.

Now with Heat Pumps on the beat

With rebates often made complete.

Wood Stoves are clearly past their prime.

With Heat or Coolness in different climes

The All in One Heat Pump is aptly named

For Cold Climates and awkwardly one

Named for Hot and Hotter ones.

But still! The Heat Pump is number one.

Wood fires are reduced to cowering

In corners until flushed out and blamed

For wildfires and most aptly shamed

For Particulate Pollution in human lungs

Traveling to the heart and brain and slung

Across many internal organs until

Cancer develops despite advertising shills

And lawsuits that tout wood fires as cozy.

The future of that advertising is not rosy.

The cruelest reviews should be at the bottom

Of a birdcage as scientists have gotten

To the heart of the matter and labeled

Wood burning a health hazard that signals

Early deaths and many Cancers sentinels.

The cruelest reviews are done by PurpleAir

Demonstrating lately that garden variety air

Is infused with particulates drifting or zooming

Into yards of near neighbors of indoor residential

Wood burners and infiltrating hyperlocal

Homes and sickening near neighbors

Who pay attention to reality hyperaware

As if humans are important, as if their mortality

Also counts. When reviews in the past had some bounce

To fan the flames of immortality, not viewed askance

Now the Olympic flame of wood burning is replaced

Usually now by propane which still has some side effect

Of dirty air. But, on average, emission by a wood burning flame

Produces ten to thirty times the particulates as propane

Burning.  The negative reviews of wood burning today

Make a wood fire shudder and wish to quietly fade away.