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Bridge Folk–Photo by Lady<\/p><\/div>\n

Totem<\/strong><\/p>\n

I follow smoke signals to higher ground
\nsit on mesa long and alone
\neat the sky
\nlearn valley below holds healing
\npeaks plunge
\nlights cry night
\nmight never right
\nI look to Coyote within<\/p>\n

~ smith<\/p>\n

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Pine Mountain Perseids <\/strong><\/p>\n
Summer on the mountain
\nas night storms hung over the valley
\nwith grey rainclouds rolling
\nlike a fallen moon.
\nAt the peak I heard coyotes
\nsing with the thunder
\nin rejoice for the body taken
\nand for all of our mourning the wild.
\nBetween gust fronts
\nthe sky parted, shining
\nmeteors like white birds of blue fire
\nfilled with your energy
\nas I looked up alone from the rocks
\ndynamic in repose as sleeping dead.
\nFinished listening
\nlike I am always too easily given,
\nI am pained by our hiding the same,
\nbut the light continues
\nin a bliss without acknowledgment
\nas that dust like us lives its moment
\ndivine through vanishing arrows.<\/p>\n
~ John Swain<\/p>\n
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