Praise Song for Prairie Gods

All praise the open prairie.
Praise the open sky
The clouds purple majestic as any sea
Praise the white cotton candy clouds,
World without end.

Praise the prairie grass,
The swaying, dancing truth of the prairie grass,
Praise the dance and the dancer and the danced.
Almost all gone now.

Praise the wildflowers,
Sticky candy in summer heat,
Praise the red baneberry
Praise the prairie onion
And the lavender hyssop

And praise the leek
And praise the bluestar
And praise the pussy toe,
Especially the pussy toe.

All praise the Jack in the Pulpit
All praise the goat’s beard
And all praise the various milkweed.
Long live milkweed.