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EQUINOX
When her grandfather
was chief elder,
and blessed his granddaughter,
held high in offering,
spirit voices
of the seven caves
could still be heard
echoing
through the canyon.
Beyond desert yucca stalks,
from pine pitch torches,
moon besets
Scorpio's firebrands
o'er the priestess,
who's onyx eyes blaze,
of what she will consume
and may destroy,
Yellow Woman & Black Panther.
Elder sibling to the Jaguar,
only she remains
from the heresy of its wisdom
on this night of the equinox,
when waters of Pueblo Mesa
spring forth, to flow
and part the cliffs,
to reclaim, to scatter
rattlers from their mounds.
With memories intact,
of those now gone,
on ghost winds of sky riders
generations before,
and the updrafts that carry
kachina prayers & offerings
on their breath
amid sweet cedar smoke
of mesquite sap
and rendered fat.
Her bronze hands filled
with indigo berries of woodbine,
touching the four corners,
the green pain of flint & flesh,
of Red Clay Daughter
and Black Earth Mother,
invoking peyote spells
among the ruins
and the silent Joshua.
was chief elder,
and blessed his granddaughter,
held high in offering,
spirit voices
of the seven caves
could still be heard
echoing
through the canyon.
Beyond desert yucca stalks,
from pine pitch torches,
moon besets
Scorpio's firebrands
o'er the priestess,
who's onyx eyes blaze,
of what she will consume
and may destroy,
Yellow Woman & Black Panther.
Elder sibling to the Jaguar,
only she remains
from the heresy of its wisdom
on this night of the equinox,
when waters of Pueblo Mesa
spring forth, to flow
and part the cliffs,
to reclaim, to scatter
rattlers from their mounds.
With memories intact,
of those now gone,
on ghost winds of sky riders
generations before,
and the updrafts that carry
kachina prayers & offerings
on their breath
amid sweet cedar smoke
of mesquite sap
and rendered fat.
Her bronze hands filled
with indigo berries of woodbine,
touching the four corners,
the green pain of flint & flesh,
of Red Clay Daughter
and Black Earth Mother,
invoking peyote spells
among the ruins
and the silent Joshua.
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