By chris
Date: 2006 Jan 26
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La Luna es Mi Madre

"La luna es mi madre,"
you say to me in a dream of a dream, and I
see why it seems I always
knew you,
knew your raza,
in the deep time before time.
And I say
that I am from the sun
(hito de)
the same one
(el sol)
that has kissed us both
with gold
as we walked this once-cold earth,
your smooth brown skin warmed - never
burned,
my eyes never quite adjusting...
Still I learned
like the south wind in April knows
to bend not break the budding cottonwood
bough.
We will take all
that is allowed,
sharing together this vida
as broad and curving as the edge
of the llano that stretches
to the place the sun empties itself into -
filled with tomorrow.