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We’d live here

We’d grow gardens

Raise chickens, cattle -

-only a few.

We’d ride horses

Gather eggs

Mend fences

Plant trees

Play baseball in the side yard, using the trees for bases.

Build forts amid the brambles and plum bushes.

Isolate.

Store toxic chemicals

In the shed - 

In the house.

Build fires,

Cut wood,

Build more fires.

We’d gotten good at building fires, 

At watching them burn

Out.

Live, grow, raise.

Gather, play, mend.

Build.

Isolate.

Burn. 

Out.