“It arrives with an independent life of its own, overflowing with energy and newness. . . . Apparently generated by a superior intelligence, it is indescribable and can only be represented by metaphors, such as lightning, the breath of life, a divine voice” (inevitable grace—breakthroughs in the lives of great men and women: guides to […]
Archives for June 2012
Among Hawks
we have watched again our own guilt disguised stalking the sullen wind carrying our own words the crows in the worn sky wait remembering too late the reasons for our being among them –Lance Henson (Voices of the Rainbow: Contemporary Poetry by Native Americans edited by Kenneth Rosen, p.58) Becoming a Hawk Lance […]
Snow Dance
Alaskan Mountain Poem #1 Dark branches dark leaves snow deep, in sky that encloses the mountain. The sun is hidden in green moss feathers that cling to the gray alder branches. On the mountain within the endless white sky spruce trees entangle the snow and only the silence dances free. By the time […]