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Dark Matter: Women Witnessing - December, 2015 Issue #3 - EXTINCTION / DEVOTION
Cynthia Anderson
From the Beginning
We live where people have lived
from the beginning
Where giants care for
and hold up the earth
Where spirits ride in
on whirlwinds
Where wind is their breath
and that’s what we breathe
Where we recall
the planet we came from
Where we sing to the dead
and guide them home
Their eyes open
to see a bright future
Where songs carry maps
of our desert
Where birds say their names
in the old language
Where we know the power
of feathers
Where medicinal herbs
call out, Here I am
Where sand shows the future
to snakes and lizards
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