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Of Prairies and Falling Stars For Reece Tonight, in my backyard, I saw a shooting star. A fanciful ball of yellow and red, blazing across a clear dark sky. I reached for it to capture a memory. A memory of a vast prairie covered with a colorful palette of purples and reds and greens and yellows. Of wild flowers and sweet grass and sage dancing in the cool wind. Their haunting scent as sweet and alluring as fine perfume. A wonderful memory of night sky ablaze with the lights of a million fireflies. A sky so vast and open it was without a beginning, or an end. As ongoing and timeless as the moments of that day shared with a special friend. Where atop mesas that seem to touch the clouds, in a place of earthen walls of stone and sand, I stood in awe among a vanished peoples home, frozen in time. A sacred and holy place. A single memory of a single night on the dusk of a summer that was forever changing my life. A single memory that touched my soul and awakened a wonderment and excitement of life that I had locked away sometime between 8 and 18. An amazing wonderment of being alive. A grand reminder that the greatest wealth I would ever know was in that prarie, on that night and on this night, in my son's eyes, when he reached for that same falling star. "Did you make a wish daddy?" *** Written by Kenneth Poe and Tania Smith |
Tattoo Expectations Crawling across the surface of my body she carries the world on her back. She moves slowly, careful not to lean too far to the left, careful not to slip as a muscle ripples beneath her ancient feet. Imprints of our stories line her shell patterns of eternity stretching across her back and pouring over the outline of her form, staining my flesh *** Written by Andrea Hernandez Holm Subscription rate is $12.00 for one year. Four issues of Tribal Fires Journal. click here for subscription form |
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