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spoken word poem read over guitar/drum track

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Maple
wood smoke
drifts across the pine
And firs curling
into Inuit ghosts
that pace stealthily
from tree to tree.
Towering totems
carved with bird
wolf bear and
snakehead
calling to
the old gods
that we were here
we lived and died in these
ancient forests
silver river slithers
through the granite
cutting inlets where
canoe and kayak
bobbed and weaved
in search of
salmon and trout
before the coming
of the white man
and his devil-brew liquor
that made us happy
numb and angry
for a while
before it tore away
the wise and gentle
masks of our priests
Old Crow Flats
Bluefish Caves
Algonkin Arapaho,
Assiniboin Atsina,
Chippewa Cree,
Crow Dakota Haida,
Hidatsa Huron Iroquois,
Kutenai Tionontati
in the green and silver
wilderness
we sleep
awaiting
the return
of the trickster
raven

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from Poetic License, released March 29, 2014

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