Some say if you you adopt a sitting place in nature / say by a creek / and visit it regularly / alone and in silence
A first note may be offered to you / on any random inhalation
( easily missed )
The re-routed red signalling of rock and moving water store the ancestral Holdings of the spot
Some say songs are embedded there for preservation / bestowed on a few
And only the most patient listeners of voices once eroded and damned. Now Testifying.
Revealing a * "storied landscape.''
Some say that chapters are held in layers of soil
Parables buried in sand silt and clay
Indigenous memory ( when we were all indigenous )
Of story-song that comes from the intrinsic
Inclusiveness of the "particular place" / the "every place" in all directions.
Some say our deep listening will act like a fertile Delta of reclamation
Present like the presence that redeems it's past / the future that sees itself Unborn
The thrum of live elemental tapestries
Knotted to the well-being of individual~ family~ tribe.
* "storied landscape": a term used by Greg Sarris, Chief of the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria in response to my inquiry about an area of Miwok land in West Marin.
Some might say this poem, like a sit spot, "the thrum of live elemental tapestries" as in your delicious lines:
ReplyDelete"Some say our deep listening will act like a fertile Delta of reclamation
Present like the presence that redeems it's past / the future that sees itself Unborn
The thrum of live elemental tapestries"