Poem: Malykatu

 

Malykatu

 

young cars and old clouds.

secretive foothills near skyscrapers.

no shaggy animals here.

Some Bird of Fire blinked and the glaciers went.

some Ant Spirit took over,

dominating the Two-Legs.

 

crowds are everywhere now,

like never existed anywhere.

so many conquests and constructs

thick over Earth's ancient skin,

 sharp, straight lines to disrupt Her face.

they cut through straw baskets,

through animals and plants, 

through the heart of an ancient respect

woven across time.  

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3/23/26

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Psychoactive plant used for visions and prophecies.  I don't want to exploit or expropriate the culture of Native Peoples, and I do not have any wisdom in any of their many ways, across countless tribes.  All I can say is that these words came out of me, this voice, so I wrote the poem, rightly or wrongly.