prairie fire (rengay)
BY DAVID C. KOPASKA-MERKEL I JANUARY 7, 2009

anvil of intent
first sulfur smile and
phosphorus blood

strange minds meet but
biochemistry kills

and still they burn
I heart your troubled
imagination

deadly diplomacy
on a water world

Archives fireball
imperishable records
go up in steam

losers in the
metabolic struggle
melt away

frontier silence prevents
coexistence of the lambs

radio waves are
the living past tomorrow
postcards in the hiss

your blood and mine
fertilize opportunity

night songs
in the autumn dusk
the cricket's still

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