Literature
Featherdance (Poem)
Listen closely, and you may hear
The sound of sacred fire.
Its ancestry flickers in a thousand
Colors, all within the hearts of unborn heroes.
Somewhere deep inside legend,
A fringed master slumbers.
Its breath sequesters beneath its beak
As it dreams in molten gold.
Six score, it has lain in wait
For its kaleidoscopic guardian.
A spirit akin to its veined own,
In suit and solemn as he.
The skies grow dapper without
The grace of its marbled wings
And the elegance of the feathers
That heal the lame and the ungainly.
Its dogs look toward the heavens,
Listening for its sacred fire.
The hours and the days atrophy
And crumb