Between this world and the next

Photo:  Three Corners canyon OR-CA-NV. Douglas Beauchamp 2019

Toward Mount Scott

a poem by Sy Hoahwah

Toward Mount Scott
it is sharp as a knife.

The bad roads lead to lost roads.
The lost roads lead to the same

empty spot. People sometimes go
to lonely places for power.

Eagles are sometimes choked,
dragonflies lassoed.

Smaller birds follow ghosts
to eat off the bugs.

Line of barbed wire
marks the boundary

between this world
and the next.
…
About Sy Hoahwah
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sy-hoawah
Toward Mount Scott included in New Poets of Native Nations.

Edited by Heid E. Erdrich.  Graywolf Press, 2018