AGAWA ROCK
inching out
along the base of a sheer rock face
with Lake Superior crashing at my back
and on the pink rock
appearing beneath my fingers
the hunger--drunk spirit drawings in
faded red ochre
of two thousand year old medicine men
pictures of fish canoes -- snakes -- animals -- people
and horned Misshepezhieu
who only moments before had lashed his tail
and brought the rain
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