Word: poi
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Lance Kirley of Leverett, Mass., saw his first fire show in Thailand two years ago and just left a job restoring colonial homes to devote full time to poi (another name for the practice). "It's almost a religion for me," he says, citing "the rushy, on-edge feeling anything can happen at any moment." Last May something did happen: entertaining at a friend's graduation, Kirley accidentally set the lawn ablaze. Now he hopes to create juggling products using nonflammable chemicals found in glow sticks...