Certain Death in the American Promise to these Frontiersmen

No hope since the fire.

Great forests devastated

to seas of black trunks.

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Eagle scours the hills

and hunts the ash of his prey.

His stomach turns black.

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Wounded wagon train

crawls burnt hillside - red natives

lie in ambuscade.

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Frontier horizon

burns Manifest Destiny

in dreamscape furnace.