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Rainwater Eyes sits Weaving a sky Of White thunder Caught in a stitch, Of salmon reflections And sand rock cliffs Caught In a halo of woe. Her needle of bone Draws the remembering. A tear slips down The ridge of her cheek, Another has found A faded bead On her deerskin gown. She sees beyond The crimson sky The lights Of Native Spirits Haunting satellites. She hears Red words Turning White. Rainwater Eyes leans Against the mountain wind As it whispers It is too late To repair the fabric Of death, Of trust misplaced. The New Year Will never come With sweet medicine To heal the bellyache Of swallowed dust: The cocaine Of White Man's lust. A tourist dollar Falls from her hand Like a leaf off of A dying tree; A green bandage Too small to cover The pain she sees. She still says Her Native prayers Asking her God Why the world Cannot see that all bones Are white and the same After death Becomes a memory. · · · · · ·
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. Sandy is a Swans' kind of girl, our in-house poet. Do you wish to share your opinion? We invite your comments. E-mail the Editor. Please include your full name, address and phone number. If we publish your opinion we will only include your name, city, state, and country. Please, feel free to insert a link to this poem on your Web site or to disseminate its URL on your favorite lists, quoting the first paragraph or providing a summary. However, 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 2002. 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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