On the Edge of West

[Amber Dawn]

Here, on the edge of West we welcome decay 

with wings outstretched. 

I glide above valley of eternity

We are green with growth that rivals spring during the shortest day, earth saturated, sun soaked longest night

The twin faced god of death and birth floods fields and roads and excites us

Our wings dry out and we continue to plan like tomorrow is promised

The children’s boots fill with careless rocks and sticks and shrieks and turn into canoes for salmon to hide in the ripples and eddies of mud-water made by rivers in the sky

We tread water like dogs paddle

Eagles with white heads and white tail feathers surprise us auspiciously flying where they had only been storied to. Less than one month ago the visiting children who are now grown unknowingly prophesied or maybe called the great raptor home with their remembering song.

And since we are new to calling this place home we marveled

and since we are old to calling this place home we marvel

The rules here are simple.

The valley god points it’s wild finger to the road out and in and forms a new pothole every time someone proclaims “I love this place” and somehow that keeps people out and in. Tiny motes.

Our hearts moored to mudslides. Chainsaws guard this place where grown children who are returning to aether come back to stay, their bodies die and in their last dreams it reminds them of a wild place in themselves

We welcome decay with wings outstretched

Gliding into this valley of eternity

Where people who love this place become the land and salmon and the deer and porcupines and the white headed prophecy remembering songs that call the wild ones back home

[Flora Brain]

Well holy fuck

what a poet !

among us

Thank you, Amber. Wow. Yes.

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