a dream
long black banners
in the wind
three
and five
numbers thought in score and decade
wind
darkness
Nagqu far inland
high above
and yet
(as I am here)
an island
of
difference
Xi Zang
another name for
loss and remembrance
I stitch it in to the tale of
of BlackHawk's people
drowned in the dark waters
where I stood watching the slow sleep of a salmon
dark rubbed stories
dug
flung out, unfurled
long black banners
in the wind
three miseries
and five prayers
unhemmed
ravelling
old numbers among
supplicants, liars,
and
flint heavy peoples
new numbers
hide
histories
long black banners
in the wind
three
and five
numbers thought in score and decade
wind
darkness
Nagqu far inland
high above
and yet
(as I am here)
an island
of
difference
Xi Zang
another name for
loss and remembrance
I stitch it in to the tale of
of BlackHawk's people
drowned in the dark waters
where I stood watching the slow sleep of a salmon
dark rubbed stories
dug
flung out, unfurled
long black banners
in the wind
three miseries
and five prayers
unhemmed
ravelling
old numbers among
supplicants, liars,
and
flint heavy peoples
new numbers
hide
histories