billowing plumes of combustible grasses send nuclear clouds into the stratosphere pillow columns stretch into the ether and expand against the barometric pressure of high elevation sending tendrils of smoke sweeping across the evening sky – near the fence stands a fireman covered in soot in one hand a pail of water with a spout he looks as calm as if he were heading to the garden gaily, it swings back and forth on a slight breeze as the daydreaming fireman stands on the edge of an inferno – cars slow and passersby gawk at the spectacle another season comes to pass as the grass fields are burned in the early August sunshine --