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A mouse colony survives the stone, The dirt, the bones: Nibbling away at the shapes of yesterday. One runs to the creek. Its reflection Woven in the cloth of shadows That shade the native graves. A hawk dives free; eyes searching The mounds of death below. He captures dinner. The winds dance with the flowers That care to grow pretty Over the Cherokee souls deceived. The amatory bee will never guess What the dying meant. Surely It was not to improve his sweetness. I wonder how many Cherokee died To empty a space? For land taken by strangers? And I wonder How many minds are still alive In heads that never dwell On what is wrong or right? How many have spent their intelligence Rewriting life stories On ashes with weapons of greed Dipped in the ink of innocent blood Sans grief; unaffected By the lust of spatial glory. But wait! The flowers return Wild and willing to dance every spring For the dead Cherokee. And the mouse, the bee And the wind Come back again and again Seeing the hawks place Over the land is a shared space With all and each other. Can it be they agree Nature is wiser than man! Sandy Lulay, originally from Woodstock, New York, is a resident of Stuart, Florida. Lulay is an "Original Woodstock Girl" who has been writing poetry since age ten. Many of her poems have been published both in Woodstock and Stuart's Sleeping Bear Review. This poem was composed in 1985. Says Lulay, "Alas nothing has changed... only the victims." Please, DO NOT steal, scavenge or repost this work without the expressed written authorization of Swans, which will seek permission from the author. This material is copyrighted, © Sandy Lulay 2001. All rights reserved. No part of this material may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. |
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