Shaman

Are we part of a brainstorm
and might be edited out?
Feeding time for Kali?
Sister Corita assigning
One hundred versions of the same problem...
Desperation pushed to break boundaries
In search of new patterns.
Old Shaman watches through other eyes - -
a stone, a virus, a star,
eagle, pocket mouse, window:
"The window looks out on..."
or the speck of dirt
under my fingernail...
Where would the stone be?
A mossy stone: "Stony Mossbacker surveyed
the landscape around him..."
They're living, I hear,
part of the vital earth,
which we are possibly killing off
right now,
bombing back to the Stone Age,
back to the rock face
of a Spanish cave
tattooed with animals
forever.

©Barbara Fryrear 1999