In this collection of poems Lesego Rampolokeng writes in the hour after the blaze: the time of smoke, residue and reckoning - when the flames subside, what still burns beneath?. Part prayer, part performance, part treatise, the poems surge from dense, jazz-charged freedom sonics and black radical invocation into historical re-enactment, social-media derangement and repurposing, and hard street-level tribute to Orlando West, its wounds, its styles, its unfinished struggles, a microcosm of what’s been, what is and what’s to come.