Loss Haiku

From "You Were Never Lost: Poems from the Tallgrass Prairie"

Prairie fire burns

with the heat of emptiness

clearing space for growth

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This poem appears in my new book You Were Never Lost: Poems from the Tallgrass Prairie. I snapped the photos during a controlled burn at Whiterock Conservancy in Western Iowa in March of this year.

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