ODE TO KENT STATE
May 4, 1970
they came after him with guns and he stuck a flower in their nozzle
they they burned down his house and a friend gave him shelter
when they poisoned him to look like it was a heart attack
the last sentence he wrote was:
"don't forget to water the jasmine"
ACORN who knows |
THE MEDICINE OF YELLOW HORSEnow that i have walked
those sacred Black Hills
black words & black thoughts
no longer flow through my brain
unrecognized
catching them in their formation
i run in all determination
to denature them i run
from habitual joining in
with others it is too easy
drawing into the whirlpool
dark & dank would hide me
from the sun who brights my eyes
in our undoing of ancient ties
i root myself to Mother & becoming
all that nurtures life & heals
in mists of fog remembered
Yellow Horse
in his repeating way,
"I am only a human being,"
like buffalo, head bowed,
and in humble dignity,
"There are only two roads;
the material road
which is not happiness,
and the un-material road
which is..."