Neath these cedars, fragrant.

 



Cedar smell delicious

As I lose myself

In the merciful

Shading of lacy green

On bunion reaching roots

Making walking delicate.

Mostly silent.


What am I doing here?

The Evinrude discarded

In the tall grass

At Bay’s edge.

That Bay with its

Unending westerlies

And hungry cormorants.


A chipmnk heralds

My trespass.

A downy hammers

The Court into session.

Identify yourself, city dweller.

State your purposes.

Not a single step forward

Until approved as

Benevolent, respectful, adventuresome.


A doe flicks her tail

Motionless in other respects

The delicate female reticence

To have intercourse

With one so removed

From the customary Red Man.



With clamshell

Breastplate adorned

With the beauties of

Dried berries.

A mother’s preparation, lovingly.

Jangling

As his feet pounded in dance

Upon the dirt of

Mother Earth.

Turtle Earth.

Odd to talk of turtles

Neath these Cedars.

Bay seeming part

Of another wet world.



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