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Subject: FIRE-WEEDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BURNING BRUSH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Most farms, in any place you please
Last Line: To burn a rousing batch of brush.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fire-weeds; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers


BURNING THE RAIN FOREST, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I watched webster hold an ax blade to a gray
Last Line: And child, I can see the smoke from illinois
Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Memory; Rain Forests


CHANGE, by A. A. HEDGE COKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thirteen years ago, before bulk barns and
Last Line: Of before that time and it %floods my memory
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Fire-weeds; Migrant Labor; North Carolina; Smoke; Tractors


FIREWEED, by ELNA L. VON PINGEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The woodsman and his ax have conquered
Last Line: On slopes where once great forests trod.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rasmussen, Elna
Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Trees


FRENCH PARK, by MAGDA GUTAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ashes hover above the neat park
Last Line: And the swans begin their dance shyly
Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Forests; Parks; Smoke; Trees


NORTH HILLOCK, by P'EI TI    Poem Source                    
First Line: On north hillock of south mountain
Last Line: Bright like fire against the green grove
Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Hiking; Zen Buddhism


THE SPARK FROM THE ENGINE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wood by the side of the railway is burned
Last Line: And to the son I shall not see.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Fire-weeds


THREE WEEDS; FIREWEED, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For towhees, mice, and mule deer, fireweed blazes
Last Line: Of a woman in a pickup, pulling over %to let him in. The burning. The flowering.
Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Nature