I was cawed.
and I answered.
I am a bird
I am a bird on the tree of life.
I am a shadow of a bird on the tree of life.
I am a shadow of a bird on the tree of life.
I am a shadow of the tree of life.
I am the tree of life.
I hear a howl from above?
She Owl barks me awake.
Give a hoot!
The island I called home has no snakes,
so no one need ever drive them away
Here there are snakes in the grass and in the trees,
and no one need chase them out
A giant pelican flew over me today
I thought he might swallow me up.
Perhaps he did.
Somedays I am both sides of the argument
but I forget the question,
And I loose my stick in the woods.
Beauty is before me.
A butterfly on the path
sips her salted sip.
She feasts on the earth.
and flies onward.
How can I not follow her example?
Manati,
You were four legged before you were finned –
I was too, before I had feet.
Your name means breast –
you have my heart.
Your song came to me from clear blue spring and ancient bone.
Sister!
We breathe the same air.
We have the same home.
