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dead grass fires 09/13/09 Vacaville forest fires aren’t forest fires without forest in the summer. Brush fires? No. Dead grass fires. They scorch the earth. Find short poems designed to fit into “tweets” at twitter.com/janetkuypers. Copyright © 2009 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

See YouTube video 9/12/1 of Janet Kuypers at Chicago’s the Art Colony open mic reading her poems Just Making Face After Face, Tired of Trying, Bitter Suburbs, Pock-Marked Molehills, Dead Grass Fires, Ever Consumed Goat, Even With no Wish Bone, and The Power to Tell Her / The Power To See Her (from a Canon Power Shot, w/ a heat wave filter).

See YouTube video 9/12/15 of Janet Kuypers at Chicago’s the Art Colony open mic reading her poems Just Making Face After Face, Tired of Trying, Bitter Suburbs, Pock-Marked Molehills, Dead Grass Fires, Ever Consumed Goat, Even With no Wish Bone, and The Power to Tell Her / The Power To See Her (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).