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Petroglyph II (Shoshone fragment)
by Leonard M HawkesThis night is restless:
Firm warm gusts from the south and the west;
The broken moon luminating
The snow that still deeply blankets Grizzly Peak.
Winter will again be here by morning,
And in this "impending" of March,
I sense the spirits who sought refuge here before;
Those from before the coming of the Roman-letters:
When symbols were for the soft surface of mother-stone,
When sequence was sun, seasons,
And the constant changing of the moon.
They who sheltered here, left the winter grounds,
Left the moderated season of the salt sea,
To range northward for the salmon
On the great southeast artery of the Oregon--
Black-cliffed spirit river whose head
Boiled up hot from the very chambers of hell--
Boiled up where the water flows east
Through the home of the Crow
To the land of the rising sun.
03/10/2011 Author's Note: a poetic fragment.
Posted on 03/11/2011
Copyright © 2024 Leonard M Hawkes
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by George Hoerner on 03/11/11 at 02:12 PM And a very nice fragment it is Leonard. It takes me back to the caves of Lascaux and thoughts of early man and their relations with nature. |
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