Wikipedia Poem, No. 413
For Bill
the roar of the slain protect the caretaker’s hut
that red clay pot portends tracks for the hunt
everything in the red clay pot belongs to the animals
though it is also fed on flour that
as a practice
belongs to those among us who do not touch bone
members of that slain ceremony
light as human gods
travel into prologues great and sprinkled with medicine
the ceremony involves deposited arrowheads emblematic
of horses and sheep and the enemy
eats our history
unlike the traditions of the keeper
the careful hunters of the ocean
traveling chosen
Sources:
- Jarman, Mark. “Dressing My Daughters”. Poetry Foundation. The Poetry Foundation, 2017. Web. 7 Mar. 2017.
- “Zuni Fetishes”. en.wikipedia.org. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 2017. Web. 7 Mar. 2017.