Little Plastic Flags

Even sustainable agriculture is rooted in control, but the nature of regeneration is unmappable in human time.

Eastern red cedar has been spicing the air with drifting clouds of gold pollen out and along the ridge tops and rolling depressions that have long stood untouched by prairie fire. Early birds, robins and doves, flit through this gilded haze, roiling the puffs and plumes into allergenic contrails and cyclones, like the vengeful, ghostly smoke of blazes n…