trashfire

Example Sentences

• "Children have been burned by sparks from trashfires, open flames of stoves, unscreened fireplaces, contact with pilot lights of space heaters, or by sticking ' metal objects in wall sockets."
• "Island Trashfires[…]Adjacent to the garbage dump (an open sore that drains the Island's poisons around the clock), old convairs lift and lower / over trashfires and the bellies of pedigreed sharks—pampered, overfed, domesticated."
• "He wheeled the last barrowload of trash from the kitchen yard out to the trashfire and tipped it and stood back and watched the deep orange fire gasping in the dark chuffs of smoke that rose against the twilight sky.[…]Along the limits of the city where the roads died in the desert in sand washes and garbage dumps, out to the white perimeters at midday where smoke from the trashfires burned along the horizon like the signature of vandal hordes come in off the inscrutable wastes beyond."
• "The air is tinged with the smell of diesel exhaust, trashfires, and excrement.[…]The haze of trashfires drifted over in a noxious sweet perfume that partially obscured the houses, which emerged like a long row of broken skulls each morning."
• "Further and further into what, I suppose, was a state of being I thought befitted some guy whose fucking dad had died around a trashfire in some field ten blocks away."
• "Putting out the Twitter trashfire / Tonight I’m drinking and talking about ways Twitter could be less of a shitheap."