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Questions for Bluestem

“Questions for Bluestem” grows out of my experience in Ohio prairies. If you’ve ever been in one at the height of the season, you know you can get lost amongst all that tall bluestem grass!

Bluestem do you know where I am

Swaying so tall over my head

If you were to find me

Would you recognize me

Bluestem do you know where I am

 

Bluestem do you know what I need

Shaking silence out of these seeds

If they ever find me

What would they remind me

Bluestem do you know what I need

 

Bluestem hover over this field

Could you bless this ground where I kneel

Spines that bend and shiver

Widen like a river

Bluestem hover over this field

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Bluestem do you know where I am

Swaying so tall over my head

If you were to find me

Would you recognize me

Bluestem do you know where I am

© 2023 Terry Hermsen

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