d.4. :: 1066 transferred from Vermont. the air is dry; all the plants are as brown as the sky. the trees don't bear leaves, and the roots can't make it through the pavement. the kitchen window peers onto a the former home of a gasoline station. the land is a loss to the environment; New England plants follow setters. brownfield is invaded and colonized and homogenized until environment is alien enough to the landscape to be comfortable to the foreigners.

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