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So prairie fire
season is coming up,

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and I realize that
you can't really

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do fires around here because
that's pretty dangerous.

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I kept saying this whole
week, like, so guys,

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are we going to put a fire on.

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We're telling stories, and
they're like, you can't do that.

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And I was like, I
get it, I get it.

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So I wanted to take you
guys to my homelands

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because that's just the
place I love the most.

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So this one is
called Prairie Fire.

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On the Res.

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Come May, come larks
cooing return calls.

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Dead mulch and bergamot
arrested in side ditches.

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Gophers in their depressions
poke out like pollen seed.

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Impatient, unsteady,
I cinder in my carbon

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till the land is lighter.

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Fluid.

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Combusts.

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Old Indian grass
back to brilliance.

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A new mouth of green.

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My terrors weeded backward.

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Baseline, stems
fevered and smoke.

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Spring is a pressure valve.

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Throat springing
itself three miles out.

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Reaches a whittled poplar tree.

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Teeth marks tattooed
in the bark.

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A kind of woodpecker
permanence worn

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when there was no
witness as they

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wintered in the lonely field.

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Faith.

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For the tree, stumped with
no mother bird to basket

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is a prairie fire.

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Butterflying fuchsia
out its rotten chest.

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After the freeze, after the
grief's shamed over warmth,

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the wasteland wills
itself to glitter again.

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