~bone woman

Decorated woman wearing paint on your face

hair braided interwoven with beads 

warrior woman, curves and strength

lover and chalice bearer

.. Alchemy woman mixing blood and life

huntress and mother

 you are Moon  

 

Bone woman who knows sacred syllables

dancing in the ancient ways

   hair long and loose and eyes alive with power

beading, stringing

  lost in song and the sound of the drum

Earth woman, connected

  woman of visions and prayer…

every step a prayer walking upon the Red Earth

  

Ancient woman, a bone woman weaving

bones and stones with night vision

   

River woman whose locks follow the bends and curves

  of the bayous, wearing a feather in your hair

Water woman swimming is the soft brackish blues

   with moon pulling the waters, your waters

you a vessel sentient soft,

  bone woman pouring sanguine life force through your limbs

 

 

 

Travel your rivulets and fly with the dark heron

  bone woman

  bearing life and wisdom

connected to Earth….

    Wild woman.. eating mangos in the sun

.. She..

  is soft like moon …

    butterfly of iron

 

© Katherine Wyatt  All Rights Reserved  2016

Reviews

[Robert Francis Callaci]

This poem is a vision piece. Powerful and intoxicating. I hear the drums and see the dance...


my warmest
bob