AMONG RUINS

"RIVER HOUSE"
Photo by S. Auberle

AMONG RUINS

Once in awhile, out in the desert,
comes a day when anything can happen.
A day when you lose yourself
in that pool of light just at the horizon,
when you can see time
running backwards in a lizard's eye,
a day when a voice seems to murmur
from crumbling hilltop ruins:

approach with respect
the land you tread on
was once my bones...

Comes a day when stones speak
and you understand,
a day when you know Coyote knows,
a day when old pottery buried in the earth
fills your heart with words:

look, the sky is round above you
like my red bowl
like time in its circle
like the Earth
holding all our bones...

- mimi