Prayer's Prairie

<p>Prayer's Prairie digs into a terrain and its people past and present to upturn and preserve artifacts of the mind.</p><p></p><p>Artfully composed and immersive set among the fires and grasses from the Great Lakes to the Northern Plains these poems revere the prairie-scape and the Prayer's complexities of lives and deaths on its soils. Its people show a compassion that still salves still stings.</p><p></p><p>The rough loveliness of the habitat emerges from the soil-the wild onion clover stinging nettles husks and rasps are entitled to be prairie. And its inhabitants are called to higher standards. A speaker calls out destruction in the name of progress posing questions such as</p><p>If the / machine is dominant what and who / are submissive and why?</p><p></p><p>Yet much remains. The poems are a recognition of the beautiful permanence of this land and the generations who lived there.</p>