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Irrigation Of Lives Past
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Battlefields
absorbed blood
of fallen soldiers.
Crimson fertilizer
soaking deep
in the ground.
What emerged forth
from those fields
since,
has grown
with the lives
which fled
from fallen bodies.
Men, boys, fathers,
sons, brothers,
of the Civil War.
Their warm blood
ran in rivulets
among corn,
and wheat,
and cotton.
An irrigation system
engineered
by war.
