This Where the Red tail and Kite feed wellAnd the Owl’s cough is intricate and variedWe step around it quietly           still seeing        Still hearing the field mice scurry within       ghost. Grasses burn ripe…

Fierce Grace by Tony Stromberg ” …Know that you are essential to this world. Believe that! Understand both the blessing and the burden of that.” ~Chief Arvol Looking Horse

The smell Of burnt garbage and war The compound of tires and galvanize, piles of brick Rusted nails, tossed out batteries A thin fabric blows in the doorway You’re seeing then not seeing A…

I am hearing your rattle as I step in between the blackberries To see the pews that sit under the redwood boughs Secret church across the meadow Quiet until Sunday Orisa’ala Your day Father…

If an arrow is well made, it will have tooth marks upon it. That is how you know. The Kiowas made fine arrows and straightened them in their teeth. Then they drew them to…

I love very much the way Madieye Niang plays on the back of the calabash with his silver rings making a little extra, ‘shaka-shaka’- these are the sweetest times in music.

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2003 Festival in the Desert in the Northern part of Mali. Oumou Sangaré singing, ‘Wayena’