ruby throated

yellow hummingbird, come home

yellow hummingbird, come home

yellow hummingbird, come home

.

circle of hunger

not just for food

but for crow’s nest

unconditional love

the kind that could read minds

and hear the tears even in deep sleep

hunger for dreams

open to the ancestors

funneling lessons

into minds’ eye open ear bellies

hunger for peace

the kind not even graves know

but those living long enough guarantee it’s here

with a passing street wink

hunger for day

giving way to a tumbling desire

for night–

the day of the spirits

where our paths are recounted

and fledglings gather witness, twigs snapping

ears flapping

.

calling on blue sky wolf, blue sky wolf, blue sky wolf

i’ll sing the last song you taught me just before you left

you left without leaving me behind

i’m still humming, but now i’ve forgotten the exact shapes,

it’s threadbare and losing form as the moccasins on my feet

the sand is forming lumps under my soul

been now a baktun of moons since

you first taught me this song

.

i never did find you

until i found myself

a bridge to owl’s dreams

opened each time i hummed these cries

a lover’s last battle cry during a sunset just like yesterday’s and tomorrow’s

a bridge the color of rainbow just before the rain pauses

.

east: huitzilopotchli amarillo

west: huitzilopotchli amarillo

north: huitzilopotchli amarillo

south: huitzilopotchli amarrilo

.

i think you still remember my other names

i hope you can whisper them in my sleep

then i can pretend i remembered them on my own

i feelflyfree one is

dancing two-medicine crow

.

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