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 […]
Drinking Gold
Hummingbird hummingbird magenta-green and white carrier of light and wind from the south you came singing a high shrill whistle weighted with rain everywhere you flew the grasses bowed in prayer and a greenness came to the land as your song was heard your wings rushed the clouds to bring sweet wet seed from the […]