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  • The American Poetry Review

    NINE POEMS

    Jul 01, 2018 3 minutes
    KHADIJAH QUEEN

    Prairie Erasure

    I

    Blazes travel the state roads. Entire fields ingrained in us—fires
    a house, a forest, essential in land and soil—set a purpose.

    II

    At growing season, leave dead matter above
    ground. Future burners—side ditches. Dead matter, new plants—
    shells that need breaking. Never leave them.

    III

    This time we see plumes rising. Grasslands herds, hunted,
    go hide in falsified ash. Drip torch upwind—
    machinery itself. The guardians of us decide when to intervene.

    Anodyne / Plea

    Who objected when the truth disappeared or when the

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