mahikan ka onot by Duncan Mercredi

Author:Duncan Mercredi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 2020-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

wolf and shadows

what are you becoming brown warrior

is it another ride you seek

taking you away from past sins

you think but the days stretch into another ride

to where

what are you becoming brown warrior

after you lost the trail

on city streets and back alleys

full of shadows and blues

oh how they tempted you with that back

alley song and neon lights

did you see this vision as a child

through spruce boughs and shadows

brown warrior

traditional smoke

you can have your fake beads and furs

you can dance to a broken drum for tourists

you can talk about peace and understanding

cleansing yourself with sweetgrass

and crawling into the womb of a sweatlodge

seeking visions and salvations

while at the same time you dream of ways to exploit

this gift

but not me

i hang out with traditional smoke

people with nothing but tobacco to offer

so you cross the street to avoid eye contact

might get infected and you brag of your children’s blood

and the strength they get from this blood that flows in them

and you forget about traditional smoke

it won’t make you rich

traditional smoke people don’t lie to me

offering as a gift the last of what they may have

expecting nothing in return but friendship

they will not dance to a discordant drum

or enter the sweatlodge womb

while they conspire against another

they do not wash with sweetgrass smoke

and pray to the directions

while plotting inside their minds to use their gifts

to gain favor inside the white god’s house

traditional smoke people don’t dance to the thunder eagle’s song

for themselves

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