Monday, October 4, 2010

The Trail Stops Here

When the horse's silhouette comes out of the fog

Behind Maple trees and Oak wood protection

A floor of frost breaking in rhythm under your feet

Pressing on into the clearing

Eagle & Sparrow on the same hunt

Sections of blood, haunting intuition

Hanging from a tree, wrapped in calf skins

Second man naked on the ground, white & blue from the cold

Southwestern pride met with native tongue and fright

A child steps out from behind the trees

Tears and shaking the story comes clean

There is a pollution in the air that carries on the temperature

Mother and child safe, not safe enough

Dying down from the night's screaming the fires smokes out

Following the smoke's trail in the sky they move

Protecting the memories of feather beds

Silenced by tragedies of survival

Along the winter path the past tense drifts away

No where left to stay

Making home with blankets and dust

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