Read the excerpt from The People Could Fly

So [the alligators] all be quiet. Until the fire flare real high and close. Sparks flyin, they swinge all over them gators bare, white skins. The gators swink close down but it don't do them no good. They got to move. The hot fire is real up now. It blister they tails and they snouts. And the gators are runnin away. Bruh Gator is in front, the little alligators is in the middle, and Sis Alligator comin on from the last.

The details in this excerpt help readers visualize...

what the sparks smell and sound like to the alligators.
how hot and painful the flames are to the alligators.
how dry and dusty the ground feels to the alligators.
what the dry grass smells and feels like to the alligators.