"Beneath the Pole of Proud Raven

She said, Creek Daughter
give me your gray gray hair,
creek daughter, give me
the glacier water,
---gray hair, cold water---
give me their child, creek daughter
give me the fish, creek daughter
give me your gray gray hair

She said, Fish
give me your silver skin, fish
give me your silver silver skin
give me your siver salmon skin
fish, give me your skin

She said, Loon
give me your noise, loon
give me your high pitched crazed call,
give me your loon-call echoing
off the island rocks, loon
give me your noise, loon
give me your noise

She said, Wolf
tired wolf, tired swimming wolf
give me your claws, tired wolf
give me your claws

She said, Crow
give me your coat, crow
give me your raven down coat
give me your coat like night,
crow, give me the night, crow
give me your coat

She said, Woman
give me the fog, woman
give me the fog, give me
the spruce-root hat where
you've hidden the fog
woman, give me the fog

She said, Coals
give me the fire spirit, coals
give me your pitch-stick smell,
give me your spruce-gum smoke
coals, give me the fire spirit

She said, Whale
give me your bones, blackfin
give me their slopes and his,
bring me the mountains, whale
give me your bones

She said, Creek Daughter
give me your gray gray hair
give me the glacier water
She said, Fish
give me your silver silver skin
She said, Loon
give me your noise, loon
She said, Wolf
tired swimming wolf
give me your claws
She said, Crow
give me your coat like night
She said, Woman
give me the fog
She said, Coals
give me the fire spirit
She said, Whale
give me your bones, blackfin
bring me the mountains

She said,
I am the glacier
She said,
I am the fish
She said,
I am the loon
She said,
I am the wolf
She said,
I am the night
She said,
I am the fog
She said,
I am the fire
She said,
I am the mountain
She said,
I am the power
She said,
I am the earth
She said,

Beware"

--Jana Harris, in: She Rises Like the Sun (1989)


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