Monday, August 04, 2003

xix. rejection

“in the sioux language, there is no word for goodbye…”
-old sioux saying

the accident of love among the thatches
and claws of grass and birds,
a remembrance of quick and quicker hands:
the sun light streaks through the gaping holes
of the wounds of trees

i am warmed

and i told you not to stay with me
so long out in the hot oven of the earth,
and hide yourself in the shades of other
trees instead.

now and then whisper the stories to my ear
how brother slays brother.

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