Sunday Sentence: Balefire by Shann Ray

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I've read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.

            In a few short years
            the older brother would be gone
            into
            the maw
            of an ancient canyon,
            his dark vehicle
            burning
            in open air
            as it leapt the barrier

            and fell
            far into a valley
            black with trees, where
            the detonation
            boomed and
            the forest
            bloomed with fire.

"The Family Who Lived With Their Faces to the Sky"
from Balefire by Shann Ray