Poem for the beginnings and the endings
Snow filling ravens tracks
Near a fence row
Where the wind fell down….
Dripping wax inside the rain
Something weeping inside this wall
Silence and memory aching here….
In a winter wind storm near the woodshed
Grey hair
On a piece of wood where
Old ones passed….
Ghosted dreams fall out of our dreamtime
to sit among us….
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walking through this half light
walking through this half light
toward what never goes away….
a glass rain untouched
In a mourning jungle
The scent of burning hair
And dying ethos
Smoldering
at the side of a hollowed
Haunted passageway
Where love in its latency
Whispers still for the dreamer to awaken….
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Leaving bents fort
Leaving bents fort
For Floyd bringing good
Riding the high plains from Colorado
To Kansas
A whirlwind gaunt and alone crosses the landscape
I drive the truck south toward Oklahoma
Crossing the same path two moon and roman nose
Once wandered
I am on the edge
Barely in America
Somewhere between rage and freedom….
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woodpecker song
I am making this sound upon the earth
The curled leaf filled with water
Holds a looking glass of sky
In a quiet place
I make this small sound….
Gogonoh neh meod
Hi do nah na ma mist stidoh hist tah nov
Mo mi gon vip eht eyo eh down mahp
Eh doin Im bohmp dists voheh
Dighh oh eh eh hi goht
Na na nist disks iiis….
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Note:
Gogonoh is a sacred entity in the Cheyenne Sundance
Ritual,the dancer wears a woodpecker head fastened to
A willow crown.when the dancer looks up the beak of the woodpecker pierces the universe and the earths properties and animals and humans are embraced by the sacredness of the universe.
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