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Prairie On Long Island
by Paula Camacho

No buffalo, no sheep, no cattle
only a herd of warm season grasses
Bluestem, Switchgrass, Broomsedge.

They roam between prairie plants
Primrose Wild Mustard, Goldenrod,
Indian Hemp, Birdsfoot Violets.

No longer collected in Indian Harvest
the Wild Indigo persevere on Hempstead Plains
their color silently contained.

Lichen hug the ground, green and red
pick out spots on the plain, this home
to nature’s stars, fenced in like celebrities.

From Friends of Hempstead Plains Anthology.

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