Burning off the Deadness
The forest I steward in Northern California
Has not been tended for sixty years at least.
I say at least because that is as far back as I can find records.
And nobody can remember the previous fire
Whose marks I can see on the Old Douglas Firs.
Travel up into the canyon a ways
(The burn marks are not visible from the valley)
and you can see it– there, there, a…
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