Stone Piles of the HodenOshonee Cedar-Wood and Reunited by RAIN

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Stone Piles of THe HOdenOshonee Cedar-Wood

Late-Winter/Early-Spring
              Branch Medicine-Magics/Heart ChARms
                                  1
--A Dancing—
“Equal and opposite reaction” to Skip/Flit action
YES—Chickadee Flock sets
THe Dead/yet incredibly springy/resilient /
Lower branches of THe Cedar-Trees
              --A Dancing—
                                   2
11 Beadlets of Last Nite’s Ice Rain
Strung along branch of THe
                    Prickley Ash—THe
Stringent inner bark A NAtive MedicAtion—
HOdenOshonee SnOWshoe certainly recommends it

11 Ice-Beads along a jagger-studded branch—
Each Bead ablaze w/ its own DAy
Star—HEY-YAH-HEY—
                             11 Suns
Stunningly/Exceptionally/Other-Worldly
Even by HOdenOshonee standards
                                   3
Branches of THe Northern White Cedar—
THornapple—TAmarack recently felled
THinning THe young White Ash Grove
Slender/curving Branches gnawed nakedly/strikingly
Bone-White bY THe Hungry WhIte-Tailed Deer and Snow-
Shoe Hare of HOdenOshonee Cedar-Wood
Branches nakedly/strikingly thrilling in their
Visual similitUde tO March NEW MOOn
                            above Ash Grove hung
                                                    HOdenOshonee
                                                    Cedar-Wood
                                                    Late-Winter/
                                                    Early-Spring
                                                    Y-2K+2

    Stone Piles of THe HOdenOshonee Cedar-Wood

SnOw-FAll

O—GhOstly StOne Piles
Of THe HOdenOshonee Cedar-Wood
Hemmed in now by impenetrable Cedar-Brake
                                                    darkly

THose hardiest of pioneer species
Reclaiming for NATURE the abandoned farm-
Land that had once ringed these Stone Piles round
Densest of Northern White Cedar now
Restoring Forest w/ a vengence

O—GhOstly StOne Piles
Of THe HOdenOshonee Cedar-Wood
By the Deep Mid-Winter
Not sO much mounded-up StOne
As a coverless enclOsure filling up
                                              With SnOw

Where primordial Forest had fallen
Now Forest riseth again
Except where Stone’s piled Stone on Stone—
Stone on Stone--Where the former
Forest Ground lies buried deep
And only the Moss groweth Green

O—GhOstly
Mossen Testaments
To a Forest Sacrifice—
Monuments to A Long-Forgotten Time—
A TIme when timber of ancient split-rail fence
Stood TAll and Green in THe Cedar-TRee--
HAUnt of THe GhOstly SnOWshoe
                                Fore-FAthers
O—GhOstly—
And even more sO now
In the reverential hush
Of A February SnOw-Fall
ALL THese GHOSTLY Silences
       Quieting—
                       Quieting—
                                       Quieting
                                 THe
                  Restless
      Mind

                                  HOdenOshonee
                                  Cedar-Wood
                                  Mid-Winter
                                  Y-2K+2

Reunited by RAIN

Rain’s coming down
Come’n down from Mother
Sky—Clouds—over-head Boughs—Leaves
Get’n wet—Don’t have much choice in the matter
Rain’s falling—Fall’n onto Riverbank
Brush—Heads—Roots—Wings—Backs—
Riverbank Grasses—Riverbank Bedrock
Totally sOaked—Get’n sO easy—O—YEAH
Rainwater’s running down Tree Trunks—Legs—
Fernstems—Creeks—Deer Trails—Trout
Tails—THe Middle Branch O’ THis Oswegatchie River
AH—Beauteous Unity
Evrything’s glistening and wet with liquid precipitation
Alienation evaporates—HEY-YAH-HEY—Barriers
Fall/dissolve in THese united states of RAIN
All of US—At ONE
World’s wet and Water’s in
Motion—Goin back to our primal/
Original One-ness—In Wilderness Waters--
Life like it was in THe Ocean
                                   Between THe River and EW Gut
                                   Fall/1985

An Arboreal Sanctification

(TOday’s Message from THe Sender of Messages/ THis late-Winter’s AM)

Walking by fenceline Hickories
I notice an intensified Shine
From the North-Side
Walking ½-way round
Ancient Old Apple-TRees—
Yes—An intense directional effect
Encircling Male White-Ash-TRee
In THis deliberate bringing of TRee-TOp
                                          against THe Sun-Father
At one and the same time
Both Blackening w/ Shadow and En-Flaming w/
A White-FIre-WhIte Radiance
“TOo BrIght to behold”
THis Baptism/THis NATURE Super-Naturale
                                                                     Sign
SImultaneously sanctifIed bY HIgh-FIre--
DeifIed bY Ice
                                     HOdenOshonee
                                    Hill-Place
                                    Morning after Late-
                                    Winter Ice Rain
                                    Y-2K+2

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